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THE 

CHARTER 

Granted  by  His  Majefty 

King   CHARLES 
The  Second, 

TO      THE 

COLONY 

O  F 

Rhode-Ifland, 

^  AND 


In     A    M    E    R    I    C    A. 


BOSTON,    in    ATfi  W-E  y  G  L  A  N  D  * 

Printed  by  John  ARetty  for  Nicholas  Boone,    at  the   Sign  of  the 
BIBLE    in    ConhiB.     1719. 


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The    CHARTER    granted     ly     Hh     Majefty    KING     CHARLES 
the   Second^     &c. 


CHARLES   THE  SECOND,  Ey  the  Grace  of  GOD,  King 
Scotland,  France?,  and  Ireland,  Defender  of  the  Faith    &c.     TO  ALL 
to  whom  thefe  Prefents  (hall   come,    Greeting.    Whereas  We  have 
been    informed   by   the   Humble   Petition  of  our   Trufty    and  well-  *"* 
beloved  Subject,     .John   Clarke,  on   the  Behalf  of  Be  njamin   Arnold 
William    Breriton,    William    Coddrington,     Nicholas   E.ilton,    William 
Holfton,  John  Porter,    John  Smith,    Samuel   Gorton,    John  Wicks^    Roger  Williams^ 
Thomas  Olney,  Gregory   Dexter,  John    Coggejball,    Jofcph    Clarke,     Randell  Holden, 
"John   Green,    John  Roome,    Samuel  Wilbore,  William  Field,  James  Barker,  Richard  Tie 
Terv,  Thomas   Harris,   and   William    Dyre,     and  the    Reft  of  the  Purchafcrs,  and  ar.i 
Free   Inhabitants,    of  our  ffhnd-  called  RHODE-ISLAND,     and  the  reft  of  the  of  the  Grant. 
Colony  of  Providence-Plantations^     in  the  Narroganfett   Bay  in  New-  England  in. 
America.     That  they    piirfuing   with    Peaceable  and   Loyal  Min;Js,    their  Sober, 
Serious  and  Religious  intentions,  of  Godly  edifying  themfelves>  and  one   another 
in   the  Holy  Chrflian   Faith  and  Worfhip,  as    they  were  perfwaded  :    together 
With   the"    gaining  over,  and  Converfion    of  the  poor  Ignorant  Indian  Natives  in 
thofe  pirts   of   America,   to    the  fincere  Profeflion,  and  Obedience,  of  the  fame 
Faith  and  Worfhip  jdid  not  only  by  the  Confent  and  good  Encouragement,  of  our 
Royal  Progenators,  Tranfpott  themfelves    out  of    this  Kingdom  of  England  into 
jimtrica.     But  alfo  fince  their  arrival  there,    after  their  .firft.  Settlement  amongil 
other  our  Subjefts  in  thofe  parts,for  the  avoiding  ofDifcord,  and  thofe  many    Evils 
•which  were  likely  to  enfue  upon  Come  of  thofe  our  Subjefts,not  being  able  to  bear. 
in  thofe  Remote  parts,    their  different  Apprehenfions  in  Religious  concernuients* 
And  in  the  purfuanceof  the  above-laid  En  Is  -,  Did  ence  again,   Leave  their  deferable 
Stations,   and   Habitations,   and  with    Exceflive  Labour  and  Travel,  Hazird  and 
Charge,  did  Tranfplant  themfclvss  into  the  midft  of  the  Indian  Natives.     Who  as 
We  are  informed,   are  the  mod  Pitmt  Princes,  and  People  of'  all  that  Country, 
Whereby  the  Good  Providence  of  GOD,  from  whom  the  Plantations  hath  taken  their* 
Name.    Upon   their  Labours,    and  Induftry  ',   have  not  only    been  preferved   to 
Admiration,  but  have  Increased  and  ProCpered,    and  are  Seized,  and  are  PofofL-d 
bv  Purchafe,  and  Confent  of  the  faid  Natives  to  their  full  content,  of  fuch  Lands, 
I/lands,   Rivers,  Harbeurs,  and  Reads,  as  are  very  convenient,  both  for  Plantations, 
and  alfo  for  Building  of  Ships,  fupplyof  fipeftaves,  and  other  Merchandize,    and 
•which  lyes  very  commodious,in  many  refpefti  for  Commerce,  and  to  acommodate 
our  Southern  Plantitions,&  may  much  Advance  th2  Trade  of  this  our  Realm  ;  And 
greatly  enlarge  the  Territories  thereof,  They  having  by  near  Neighbourhood  to, 
and  Friendly  Society  with  the  Great  Body  of  the  NarroganTet  Indians,,$ven.  them 
Encouragement  of  their  own  accordj  to  Subjeft  themfelves,  their  People  and  Land 
unto  Us  :  Whereby  as  is  Hoped  there  may  in  Time  by  the  Bleffing  of  GOD,    upon 
their  Endeavours,  be  Laid  a  Sure  Foundation  of  Happinefs  to  all   America.     AND 
"VVhereas  in  their  Humble  Addrefs,  They  have  Freely  Declared,   the  it  is  much  on. 
their  Heart,  if  they  mav  be  permitted  to  Hold  forth  a.  Lively  Experiment,  That 
a  'moft  Flourifhing  Civil   State,  may   ftand   and  be(r  be   M.inrained,  and  that; 
amongft  our  Englifh  Subjecls,W5th  a  full  Liberty  in  Religious  .Concernments  ;  And 
that  true  Piety,  Rightly    Grounded  upon  Gofpel   Principles,  will  Give  the  Bcft 
and  Greateft  Security  to  Soveraignty  ',  And  will  lav  in  the  Hearts    of  Ms;i  clie 
Strongeft  Obligations   to  trite  Loyalty.    NOW   KNOW   YEE,  That  we  being 
Willing  to  Encourage   the    Hopeful  Undertakings  of  our  faid.  Loyal  an.l  Loving 
Subjefts,   And  to   Secure  them  in  the  Free  Exercife  and  Enjoyment  of  all  rheir 
Civil  and  Religious  Rights  Appertaining  to  them.'as  our  Loving  Subjects  ;  And  to 
Preferve  unto  them   that  Liberty  in  the  true   Chriftiart  Faith  and  WorQnp   of 
GOD,  Which  They  have  fought  with  fo  much  Travel,    And  with  Peaceable  Minds 
and  Loyal  Subjeftion  to  Our  Royal  Progenitors  and  Our  Selves  to  Enjoy.  AND 
becaufe   feme   of  the  People  and   Inhabitants  of  the  fame  Coloa^,  cannot  in  their 
private  Opinions,  '  Confirm  to  the  Publick  Exercife  of  Religiou,according  to  the 
Liturgy,  Forms  and  Ceremonies  of  the  Church  cj  England^  Ukc  or  Subftribe  the 

A  s 


•.*';  I  2  ] 

'eV. ahft  "Art  ides  made  and  Efhblifhed  in  that  behalf.     AND  for  that  the  Tame 
J}y    rei.on   of  the  Remote   Diftances  of  thofe   Places    will  (as  we  Hope  )   be  no 
Breach  of  the  Unity  and  Uniformity  Eftahliflied  in  this  Nation.     HAVE    THERE 
FORE  Thought  ft',    AND  DO  HEREBY  Pnblifh,   Grant,  Ordain,,  and  Declare. 
That  Our  Roval  Will  and  Pleafure  is,  That  JIG  Perform   within  the  faid    Colony,  at 
anv  Time  hereafter,  fhall   be  any  ways  Molefted,  Punifhed,  Difqttieted,  or  called 
TijeGrimt        'n  Queftion   for  any   Differences  in  Opinion,  in  matters  of  Religion,  And    do  not 
/«v  Liberty  of  Aftu«lly    difturb   the   Civil   Peace  of  Our  faid   Colony,     But    that  all.auid  Every 
ren/cicnct.       fVrfoi  and  Perfons,  nnv    from   time  to  time,    and  at  all  times  hereafter,  Freely, 
and   Fully,  Have  and   Enjoy,  His   and  Their  own  Judgments,   and'  Conscience  ia 
matters  of  Religious  Concernments     Throughout   the  Traft  of   Land    hereafter 
Mentioned  -^  They    Behaving  themfelves  Peaceably    and  Qn'etly,    And   not  VJing 
This  Liberty  to  Licent  ioufnefs  and  Prepbantfi  ',   nor  to  the  Civil  Injury,  or  outward 
Difturbsnce    of  others.     Any  Law,   Statute,  or    Claufe,    therein  contained,  or  to  be 
Contained  ;  Any    "Ufagf  or   Cujtv'me  of  this  Realm  to  the   Contrary  thereof  in  any  wife 
netrvithftfindin'g.     And  that  they  may  be  in  the  bettcrCapadtv    toDcferid  themfelves 
in  their  Jult  Rights  and   liberties,  againft  all   the  Enemys  of  the  Chi  iftian  Faith, 
and  others    in     all   Rcfpefts.      WEE    Have    fuither    thought    Fit-,  And  at  the 
Humble    Petition  of  the    Perfons    aforefaid,  Are   Gradoufly   pleafed  to  Declare, 
T''iat  they  fhall  Have,  and  E;ijo> , the  Benefit  of  Our  Late    Ail    of  Indemnity,  and 
Fr  e   P.Tlon,  as  the  reft   bf  our  Subjects  in  other  Ou>-  Dominions  and  Tcrritorys 
have.     AND  TO  CREATE,  And  make   Them  a   Bodv  Politick  and    Corporate, 
with  the   Powers,    and    Privlledges     herein  after- mentioned.     AND  accordingly 
Our  Will  and  Pleafure  is,  AND  of  Our  Efpecial  Grace,  Certain  Knowledge,  and 
meer  Motion,     WEE    HJVC    Ordained,    ConfHtnted,      Decided,    and    by   thefe 
Prefents,  for  Us,  Our  Heirs,  and   SuccefTbrs    DO  OrJain,     Conllitue,    and    De 
clare,   TU:  they    the  faid  William  Brinton,   William  Coddrington,    Nicholas  Eafton, 
FMlutittJ.        Henadift    Arnold,     William  Bolflon,  John  Porter^  Samuel    Carton,  John  Smith,  John 
Wicks,  Roger  Williams,  Thoma*  Olney,  Gregory  Dexter,  John  Coggcjhall  Jujeph  Clarke-, 
Randal    Holder},  John  Green,  John  Rocme,  William  Dyre,  Samuel  Wtlbvre,    Richard 
Tert>,    William  Field,    Thum.ts   Harris^    James  Barker,  Rainiborough   Wiltiatnf,  and 
John  £Ji\fon.     And  all  fuch  others  as  now  are,  or  hereafter  flwll  be  admitted,  and 
made  Free  of  the  Company,  and  Society,  of  Our    Colony,  of  Providence- Planta 
tion:,   in  the  Narrogitrifctt  Bay  in  New-En?J.ind.  Shall  be  from  time  to  tirue,and  foe 
ever  hereafter,   Be  A  BODY  CORPORATE  and  POLITICK  in  Fail  and  Name  -, 
By    the    Name    of  the    GOVERNOUR.  and.  Comoanv     of  ihc  Engltjh  Cehtiy.ol 
RHODE-ISLAND,    and     Pr  evidence -Plant  at  iont^    m  New-England   in    America* 
AND  tHat  by    the  fame    Name,    They   and    their  SuccefTbrs,  fhill    and    may  luve 
Perpetual  Succellion.     And  fhall  and  may  be  Perfnns  able  and  capable  in  the  Law, 
to  Sue    and  be  Sued,  to  Plead,  and  be   Impleaded  j   to  Anfwer,   and   to  be   An- 
fw^rei   uuo,    to    defeil,      an  I     to    he  defended,     i:i    all    and    Singular  Suits, 
Caufes,  Q^rre^s     Matters,   Aclions  and  things,  of  what  Kinder   Nature   foever. 
AND  ALSO  TO  HAVE,  Take,  PofTefs,   Accjuire,  and   Purchafe  Lands,  Tcnaments 
or    Hereditraments,  or  any  Goods  or    Chattels  j  and   the    fame  to  Lea fe,  Grant, 
Demife,  Aliene,  Bargain,  Sell  and  difpofe  of,   at  their   own  will  and  Pleafures,    as 
other  our  Leige  People  of  this  Our  Realm   of  England,   or  any  Corporation,     or 
ftw;» •  tom.ike  Body  Politick  within   the  fame   may  Lawfully    do.     AND  FURTHER    That  they 
CoKifijn  St.fl.  the   faid    Governour  and  Company,  and    their    Succe.iTors,  flull  and  may  for  ever 
hereafter  have  a  common   Stal  to  ferve  and  ufe  for  all  Matters,C^ufes  and  Things 
and    Affairs  whatfoever,    of  them    and    their    SuccefTbrs :    And   the  fame  Seal  to 
Alter,    Change,    Break  and    Make   New,    from    tiuie    co  time  at  their  Will  and 
Pleafure,  as  they  fhall  think  fit.      AND  FURTHER,  We  Will   and  Ordain,    And 
by  thefe  Prefents,  for  Us,  Our   Heirs  and   Succeflbrs.     Do  Dechre    and    Appoint, 
that  for   the  Better  Ordering  and  Managing  of  the  Affairs  and    Btiflnefs  of  the   faid 
Company  and    their   SuccelTors,     there      (hill    be   One     GOVERNOUR,       One 
DEPUTY  GOVERNOUR,    and   TEN.  ASSISTANTS,  to  be  from  time  to   time 
Coftituted,  Ekiled  and  Chofen  out    of  the  Free-men  of   fa  id    Company,   fyr    the 
f':i>ir°f  time   being,     in    fuch    Manner    and   Form  as  is   here-after  in  thefe   Prefents   Ex- 
/£>"'     Pre^cd  '•>  wh!cil    raid   Officers,  fliail  apply   themfelves,    to    take  c.ire  for  the  Beft 
"v'' ties'"         difpofing  and  ordering  of  the   General   Bufinefs    and  Affairs  of  and   concerning  the 
lands    and  Hereditaments    herein    after-mentioned-,   to   be     Granted,    and    the 
Plantation  (hereof,  And  the  Government  of  the  People  there  :  AND  for  the  better 
Execution  of  Our    Royal  Pleafure   herein,    WE  DO,    for    Us,  Our  Heirs  and 

SuccdTors, 


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i,  Name,  Conftitnte     and    Appoint  the  aforefaid  BENADICT  ARNOLD  fo  K*  toes 
be 'The    firft  and    Prefent  GOVERNOUR    of  the:  faid    Company,  and  the    faid  fi>ft    M^i- 
WILLIAM    BRENFON    to   b-    the   Deputy     GOVERNOUR,    and    .the    faid  ft'  <"«• 
William  Bolftoti*  John  Porter,  Roger  Williaiht,    Thomas     Olncy.,    John  Smith,  Jukn. 
Cirecn,  John  Co^jrjhall,  J.itnes    ft  trkcr,  William  Field,  and  Jofcph  Clarke,  to  be  the 
Ten  prefent   Afliitants  of  faid   Company  ;  to  continue  in    the  faid  feveral  Offices, 
R^fpeftively,  until    the  firft    Wedn  fddy,  which   fhall    be   in  the  Month   of   May 
now    next  coming  :  AND  FURTHER,  We  Will,  and  by  theft  prefents,  for  Us, 
Oar   Heirs  and    SuccefTors,  Da   ordain  and  grant,  that  the  Governour  of  the  faid' 
Company  for  the  time  being,  or  in  his  abfence,   by  occafion  of  Sicknefs,  or  other- 
wife  toy  the    Leave   and   l^rmfllon,  The  Deputy  Governour  for  the  time  being, 
Shall  and  miy  from  time  to'  time  upon    all  occafions,  Give  order  for  the  AlTem- 
bline  of  the  faid  Company,   and  Calling  them    together,  to    confult   and   advife  of 
the  Bufinefs  and    Affairs  of  the  faid  Company.     AND  THAT  FOR  EVER  here- 
after,twice  in  every  year,  That  is  to  fay,  on  every  firft  Wednefday  in  the  Month  of 
May,     and   on  every    laft   Wednefday  in  October,  or    oftener,    in    cafe  it   (hall  be 
Requifite,   the   Afliitants  and    fuch  of  the    Freemen  of  the  fiid  Company,  not  ex 
ceeding    Six   Perfons    for    Newport,      four    perfons    for    each    of  the    refpeftiVe 
Towns  of  Providence,   Portfmouth,  and  Warwick,  and   two  perfons,   for  each  Other 
place,  Town  or  City,  who  (lull  be  from  time  to  time  thereunto  Elected  or  Depu 
te!  by  the   Major   part  of   the  Freemen  of  the  Refpeftive  Towns  and  places  for 
which    they   (hill  be   fo  Elefted  or    Deputed,  (hill    have  a   general  Meeting  or 
Alfembly,  tHen  and    there  to    Confulf,  Advife  nnd   Determine    in    and  a^out  the 
affairs  and    Bufinefs    of  the  f;.id  Company  and  Plantations.     AND  FURTHER, 
We  Do  of  Our    Efpecial  Grace,  Certain  Knowledge,   arid  meer  motion, Give   and 
Grant  to  the  faid    Governour  and  Company,  of  the  Englifl)  Colony  of  Rhode- I/land, 
and  Providence  Plantations  in  New-England  in  America,  and  their   Succeffors  ^  that 
the  Governour,  or  in  his  abfence,  or  by  His  permifiion,  the  Deputy  Goyerncur  6f 
the  faid  Company  for  the  time  being,  the   Afliftants  and  fuch  of  the  Freemen  cf 
the  faid  Company,  as  fhall  b^  fo  as  a  fort  faid  Elsfted  or  Deputed,  or  fo  many  of 
them  as  (lull  be  prefent  at  fuch  Meeting    or  Affsmbly   as  aforefaid,  fhall  be  called 
the  General  Affembly  i  and    that  thev  or  the  greater  part  of  them   then   prefent, 
whereof  the  Governour,  Deputy  Governour,   and  Six  of  the  Afliftants,   at  leaft 
to  be  Seven.     Shall  H.we,  and  Have  hereby  Given  and   Granted  unto  them,  FULL 
POWER  AND  AUTHORITY  from  time  to  time,   and   at  all  times    hereaftert 
to   appoint,  alter,  and  change,    Inch   Days,  Times,    and  Places  of  Meeting,   and  ~an 
General  A(Temblies,as  they  Ih.vll  think  fit.    And  to  Choofe,  Nominate,and  Appoint  mttbfir 
fuch  &  fo  many  other  perfons  as  they   (hall  think  fic,and  fhall  be  willing  to  accept  Fairer, 
the  fame,  to  be  free  of  the  faid  Company  and  Body  Politick,    and  them  into  the 
fame  to  Admit  i  AND  to  Eleft,  a->d  Conftittite,  fuch  Officer,  and  Officer?.     And 
to  Graut  needful  Commillions  as  they  fhall  think  fit  &  requifite  for  the  Ordering, 
Managing  and  Difpatching  of  the  aft.tirs  of  the  faid  Governour,  and  Company,  and 
their   SuccefTors.     AND  from   time    to  time   to  Make,    Ordain,    Conftitute   or 
Repeal   fuch  Laws,  Statutes,  Orders  and  Ordinances,  Forms  and  Ceremonies  of 
Government  and    Magiftracy,  as  to   them  fhall   feem   meet  for  the   Good  and 
Welfare  of  the  faid  Compmy  ;  and   for  the  Government    and    Ordering   of   the 
Lands  and  Hereditramer.es   therein  after   ir  --vioned  to  be  Granted,  and  of   thr 
People  that    Da,   or     at  any  time  Hereafter  fhall  Inhabit  •,     or    be  within    the 
Time;  So  as  fuch  Laws,    Ordinances  and  Confutations  fo  made  be  not  contrary 
and  Repugnant    unto,  But  as  near  as    may,    agreeable  to  the  Laws  of  this  Our 
Realm  of  England,  confidering  the  Nature   and  Constitution    of  the   Place   and 
People  there.     AND  ALSO  to  Appoint,  Order  and  Direct,  Ereft  and  fettle  fuck 
Places  and  Courts  of  Jurifdiftion,  for  the  Hearing  and  Determining  of  ill  Aftions, 
Cafes,  Matters  and  Things  happening  within  the  faid  Colony  and  Plantation,  and 
which  (hall  be  in  difpute  &:  depending  there  as  they  (hall  think  fit. AND  ALSO,  to> 
Diftinguifh   and   fet  forth  the   feveral   Names  and    Titles,   Duties,  Powers,  and 
Limits  of  each  Court,  Office,    and   Officer,     Snperiour    and    Inferiour.      AND 
ALSO,  to  Contrive   and  appoint  fuch    forms  of    Oaths  and   Attefta'tions,     nor 
Repiignant,but  as  near  as  may  be  agreeable  as  aforelaid,  to  the  Laws  and  Statutes 
of  this  Our  Realm,  as  are  convenient  and  requifite"}  with  Refpeft  of  the  Due  Ad^ 
miniftration  of  Juftice,and  Due  Execution  and  Difcharge  of  all  Offices  &  places  of 
Truft,  by  the  Perfons  thir  Hull  be  therein  concerned.     AND  ALSO,  to  Regulate,  /„„.,  j,gj. 
and  order  the  way  and  manner  of  Elections  to  Offices  and  Places  of  Truft,  and  to'  narttcl.; 

B  Prefci'ibe  cf  Engl* 


Pwtr  of  tl>t  Precrlbe  i-'ittirs,  anri  D'Air.gulfh  tl  •;  "NuniWrs,  and  Boaa-ds  of  all  Phces;  Towns,' 
Jtitiubiiti  to  "''  Cities  within  the  Limits  a.vi  Bound'  herein  after  mentioned  and  not  herein 
OiJe-.£le('ii'  particularly  Named,  Who  have  or  (lull  True  the-  Power  of  Elf  ifling  and  ScnHin/ 
cm.  of  Free-men  to  the  faid  General  Aficmbly.  AND  ALSO  to  Order,  D  reft  and 

Authorize   the  linpcfiiig  of  Lawful  »n1  Reafonable   Fines,  M-jlcts,  Unpnfonnuv.ts, 
ana  Executing  other   Punifhments  Pecunary   and    Corporal  upon    Offenders    and 
D.-'.inq'isars,    according  to    the   courfe    of   otiur   Corporations    within    this  Ouf 
Kingdom  of  England.      /ND  AGAIN  to  Alter,   Revoke,  Antill  or  Pardon,  Under 
their  Common  Seal,  or  otherwife,  fuch  Fines,  Mulcts,  Imprilonments,  Sentences, 
rtmtr  of  tie    Judgements   and   Condemnations  as  fhall    be    thought  fit  -,  and  to   Direct,  Rule, 
jtfftml'lj  to      Order  and  Difpofe  of  as  al!  other    Matters  and  Things,  and  particularly  th.u  Avhich 
T,w,1on  and      Relates    to   the     making    Purchafes  of  the  Native   Indians,  as    to  them  Qiall  fe'em 
meet.     WHEREBY  our  faid  People  and  Inhabitants    in    the  faid  Plantations,  may 
be    fo  Religioufly,    Peaceably  and    Civilly   Governed,  as  that  by  their  goo'd  Lives 
and   orderly  Conventions,    they    may  win   and    Invite  the   Native  Indians  of  the 
Country,  to  the  Knowledge  and    Obedience  of  the    only  true  GOD,  and  Saviour 
of   Man-Kind,    WILLING,     COMMANDING,    AND    REQUIRING,    and    by 
thefe    Prefents,    for    Us,    Our    Heirs  and  SuccefTors,  Ordaining  "and   Appointing, 
that  all    fuch   Laws,  Statutes,  Orders  and   Ordinances,  Inftruc'Uons,  Impofitions 
and  Directions,  as  fhall  be  fo  made  by  the  Governour,  Deputy  Gorernour,  Alli- 
l't       ftanti  and  Freemen  ',  or  fuch    Number  of   them    as   aforeTaid     and    publifhed     in 
J  tin-    Writing,  under  their  common  Seal  j  Shall  he  Carefully  and  Duly  Obferved,  Kept, 
i  •  ti<f  Colony  Performed  and  put  in  Execution,  according  to  the  true  Intent  and  Meaning  of  the 
fame  :  And  thefe  Our  Letters  Pattents,  or  the  Duplicate  or  Exmplification  thereof, 
Shall  be  to  all  and  every  fuch  Officer1,    Superiour  or  Tnferiour,   from  time  to  time, 
for    the  putting  of  the  fame  Orders,  Laws,  Statutes,  Ordinances,  Infuuctions  and 
Directions,  in  Due  Execution     againft  Us,   Our  Heirs   and  SnccefTor?,  a  Sufficient 
Warrant  and  Difcharge.     AND  FURTHER,   our  Will  and   Pleafure  is,  and  We 
do  hereby    for    Us,  Our  Heirs  and    SucjefTbrs,  Efhblifh  and  O'dain,  that  Yearly 
once  in  the   Year  for  Ever  hereafter  ^  Namely    the  aforefaid   IVedntfday  in  May, 
and  at  the  Town  of  Newport  ',  or  elfe-where,  if  urgent    occafion  do  Require  the 
Governour,    Deputy    Governour,  and    Affiftants  of  the  .fad  Company,  and  other 
Officers  of  the  faid  Company  -,  or  fuch  of  them,  as  the   General    AfTembly   fliail 
think  fit,  (hall  be  in  the-  faid  General  Court  or   Affembly,  to   be  held  from  that 
Day   or  time,  Newly  Chofen    for   the   Year    Ending,     by     fuch    Greater    p-rt 
of  the  faid  Company  for  the  time  being,  as  fhaltbe4  then  and  there  piefent  :  A-nd  if 
it    fhall  happen,   that  the  prefent  Governour,   Deputy  Governour,  and    Affiftanti 
by  thefe   pref^nts  appointed,  or  any  fuch   as  (hall  htreafter  be  Newly  Ch.tlen  i^ito 
their  Rooms,  or  any  of  them,  or  any  other  of  the  Officers  of  the  faid  Company, 
fliail  Dye  or  be  Removed  from  his  or  their  feveral  Offices  or  Places  before  the  faid. 
General  Day  of  Election,  whom  We  do  hereby  Declare  for  any    Mi£iemeanioar 
or  Fault,  to  be  Removeable,  by  the  Governour,  Afliltants  and-  Company,  or  fuch; 
greater  part  of  them  in  any  of  the  ftid  publickCourts  to  be  Aflembled  as  aforehid. 
the  Go.  jj-jA-r;  THEN  and  in  every  fuch  Cafe,  it  fhall  and  may  be  Lawful,  to  and  for  the 
jd'  Governour    Deputy   Governour,.   Affiftants  and   Company  as    aforefaid,    or 
?.-   «    cmo.     fuj_h         ter  partof  them  fo  to  be  Aflembled,  as  is  aforefaid  in  any  of  their  Aflem- 
blies    to  proceed  to  a  New   Election    of  one   or   more  of  their  Company,  in  the 
Rooms  or  Places  of  fu«-h  Officer,  or  Officers  fo  Dying,  or  Removed,   according  to 
their    Difcretions.     AND   IMMEDIATELY  Upon,  and    after   fuch    Election    or 
Eleftions  made  of   fuch  Governour,    Deputy  Governour,    Alfiftant  or  Affiftants, 
or  any  other  Officer  of  the  kid   Company  in  Manner  and  Form  aforefaid 
AUTHORITY    Office  and  Powers  before  Given  to  the  former  Governour,  Deputy 
Governour,  and  other  Officer  and    Officers    fo  Removed,  in    whofe  Stead   and 
Place  New  (hall  be  Chofen,  ftall    as    to  him   and    them,    and  every    of  them 
Refpectivdy  Ceafe   and   Determine.     PROVIDED  ,ALLW  AYS,  and  ,  our   Will 
and  Pleafure    is,    that  as  well    fuch  as  are   by  thefe  Prefents  Appointed  to  be  the 
nrefent    Governour,  Deputy  Governour,  and  Affiftants,  of  the  faid  Company,  or 
Ihofe  that  fhall   Succeed  them,  and  all  other  Officers    to  be  appointed  and  Chofen 
<:  i  fore  faid    fhall   before  the   undertaking  the    Fxecution   of  the  laid  Offices   and 
Places  R  fpeftivelv  give  their   Solemn  ENGAGEMENTS  by  Oath,  or  othenvife, 
'for  the  due  and    faithful  Performance  of  their   Duties  -in    their   feveral    Offices 
&  PUces,before  fuch  Perfon  or  Perfons  as  are  by  thefe  hereafter  appointed  to  take 
and  receive  the  fame  (  that  is  to  fay  )  the  faid  BaukUR  Arnold,  who  is  herein 


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before  Nominated  and  appointed,  the'  Prefent  Governour  of  the  faid  Company, 
fliall  (jive  th6  aforefaid  Engagement  before  William  Brenton^  or  any  two  of  the 
did  A  (lilt ants  of  the  faid  Cbmpinv,  unto  whom  We  do  by  thefe  Prefects  Give  " 
full  Power,  and  Authority,  to  Require  and  Receive  the  fame:  AND  the  faid 
William  Brcnton,  who  is  hefeby  before  Nominated  and  Appointed  the  Prefent 
Deputy  Governour  of  the  faid  Company  ;  (lull  give  the  aforefaid  Engagement 
before  the  (hid  Bcn'adicl  Arnold,  or  any  two  of  the  Affiftants  of  the'faid  Company, 
unto  whom  We  do  by  thefe  Prefents,  give  full  Power  and  Authority  to  Require 
and  Receive  the  fame  ,  AND  the  faid  William  Bolfton,  J^bn  Porter,  Roger  Williams., 
Thomas  Olncy,  John  Smith,  John  Green,  John  Cfg^eJ/jall,  James  Barker,  William 
Field,  and  jofeph  Clark,  who  are  herein  before  Nominated  and  Appointed  the 
Prefent  Afiiftants  of  the  faid  Company  ;  mall  give  the  faid  Engagement  to 
their  Offices,  and  Places  Refpeftively  belonging,  before  the  faid  Eenadill  Arnold^ 
and  William  Brcnton,  or  one  of  them  :  to  whom  Rcfpeftively  We  do  hereby  give 
full  P.»wer  and  Authority  to  Require  and  Aiminifter.  or  Receive  the  fame  :  AND 
FURTHER,  Our  Will  and  Ple<tfure  is,Tint  all£  every  other  future  Gavernour,  or 
Deputy  Governour  to  be  Elected  &  Chofen  by  virtue  of  thefe  Prefents,0ull  jive  the 
faidEngigement  before  two  or  more  of  the  faid  Affifla:its  of  the  faid  Company  for 
the  time  being,  unto  whom  We  do  by  thefe  Prefents,  give  full  Power  and 
Authority  to  Require,  Adminifter  or  Receive  the  fame  .  AND  the  did  AlTift.-mts, 
an!  every  of  them,  and  everv  other  Officer  or  Officers  to  be  hereafter  Elected  and 
Chofen  by  virtue  of  fhefe  Prefents,  from  time  to  time,  mill  give  the  Like 
Engagement  to  their  Offices  and  Places  Refpe£tively  Belonging,  before  the 
Governour,  or  Deputy  Governoar  for  the  time  being-,  unto  which  faid  Governour, 
or  Deputy  Governour,  We  do  by  thefe  Prefents  give  full  Power  and  Authority  to 
Require,  Adminifter  or  Receive  the  fame  accordingly  :  AND  WE  do  Likewife 
for  Us,  Oar  Heirs  and  SuccefTors,  give  and  Grant  unto  the  faid  Governour  and 
Company,and  their  SuccefT>rs  by  thefe  Prefents,  that  for  the  more  peaceable  and 
orderly  Government  of  the  faid  Plantations,  it  fhall  and  mav  be  Lawful  for  the 
Governour,  Deputy  Governour,  Affiftants,  and  all  other  Officers  and  Minifters 
of  the  faid  Company,irt  the  Admin  i  ft  ration  of  Juftiire^nd  Exercife  of  Government 
in  the  ft  id  Plantations,  to  Ufe  EKercife  and  Put  in  Execution  fuch  Methods,  Rules- 
Orders  and  Directions,  not  being  Contnry  or  Repugnant  to  the  Laws  and 
Statutes  of  this  our  Realm,  as  have  been  heretofore  Given,  Ufed  and  Accuftomed 
in  fuch  Cafes  refpefttivly,  to  be-  put  in  Practice,  until  at  the  next  or  fome  other 
General  AfTembly,  fpecial  provifion  (hall  be  nude,  and  ordained  in  the  ofe  afore- 
faid  :  AND  WE  do  farther,  for  Us  Our  Heirs  and  Succeffbrs,  Give  and  Grant  un 
to  the  fiid  Governour  and  Company,  &  theirSucceflbrs  by  thefe  Prefents:  THAT 
IT  it  (hill  and  miy  be  Liwhl  to  and  for  the  fiid  Governour,  or  in  his  Abfence, 
the  Deputy  Governour,  and  Mtjor  part  of  the  faid  Ailiftants,  for  the  time  being,at  t;  *""'  cf ij>e 


faid  Plantations  :  AND  that  it  fhall  and  may  be  Lawful,  to  and  for  all  and  every  litia 
fuch  Commander,  Governour  and  Millitary  Officers  that  fhall  be  So  as  aforefaid, 
or  by  the  Governour,  or   in  his  Abfence  the  Deputy  Governour,  and  Six  of  the 
faid  Affi(lants,and  Mijor  part  of  the  Freemen  of  the  {aid  Company  prefent  at  any 
General  AfTembly  -,  Nominated,  and  Appointed  and  Confiituted  according  to  the 
Tenor   of  his   and  their  Refpeftive  Commiffions,  and  Directions  ;   To  AfTemble,  r>oa":r 
Exercife  in   Arms,  Martial  Array,  and  put  in   Warlike  Pofture  the  Inhabitants o 
did  Colony  for  their  Special  Defence  and  Safety  -,  AND  to  Lead  and  Conduft  the 
faid  Inhabitants,  and  to   Encounter,  Expulfe,   Expel  and  Refill  by  force  of-  Arms, 
as  well  by  Sea  as  by  Land  •,  and  alfo  to  Kill,  Shy  and  Deftroy  by  all  fitting  wavs, 
E'nterprizes  and  means  whatfoever,  all  and  Every  fuch  Perfon  and  Perfons,as  {hall 
at  any  time  hereafter  Attempt  or  Enterprize  the  Deftruc>ion,  Invifion,  Diriment 
or  Annoyance  of  the  did  Inhabiting  or  Plantations ;  AND  to  Ufe  andExercife  the 
Law  Martial  in  fuch  Cafes  only  asOccafion  fhall  NecefTirily  Require  :   AND  to  take 
or  Surprize  by   all   ways  and    means;  whatfoever,    all    ani   every  fuch  Peflbn  or 
Perfons,  with  their  Ship  or  Ships,  Armour,  Ammuniton  or  other  Goods  of  {uch 
Perfons  as  fhall  in  Hoftile  manner  Invade  or  Attempt  the    Defeating  of  the  f^id 
Plantations,or  the  Hurt  of  fiid  Company'and  Inhabitants  -,  AND  upon  Juft  Can-  liberty  t 
fes  tolnvads  aad  Deftroy  the  Native  Indians,  Or  ota-r  E  iemies  of  did  Colonv. 

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NEVERTHELESS  Oar  Will  and  Pleafure  is,  and  We  do  hereby  Declare  M  the 
Reft  of  our  Colonies  in  New-England,  that  it  (hall  not  be  Lawful  for  this  our 
f.iid  Colony  ot  Rhode -IflandznA.  Providence*  Plantations  in  America  in  New  England^ 
to  Invade  the  Natives  Inhabiting  within  the  Bounds  and  Limits  of  their  did 
Colonies,  without  the  Knowledge  and  Content  Of  the  faid  other  Colonies 
AND  IT  IS  HEREBY  DECLARED,  that  it  fhall  net  be  Lawful  to  or 

for  the  reft  °f  the  Color'ies>.  to  Invade  or  Moltft  the  N-uive  Indians,  or  any  other 
Inhabitant,  Inhabiting  within  the  Bounds  and  Limits  hereafter  mentioned  ;  they 
having  Subjefted  themfelves  unto  Us,  and  being  by  Us  Taken  into  Our  Special 
vies  to  Invade  Protection,  without  the  Knowledge  and  Confent  of  the  Governour,  and  Company 
tbeliulianiofQut  Colony  of  Rhode -Ijl and  and  Providence-Plantations.  ALSO  OUR  WILL 
and  Pleafure  is,  and  We  do  hereby  Declare  unto  all  Chriftian  Kings,  Princes,  and 
States,  that  if  any  perfon  which  fh,.Ul  hereafter  be  of  the  faid  Company  or 
Plantations,  or  any  other  by  Appoin-tiHent  of  the  faid  Governour  and  Company 
for  the  time  being,  fhall  at  any  time,  or  times  hereafter  Rob  or  Spoil  by  Sea  or 
Land,  or  D>  anv  Hur«-  ot  Unlawful  Hoftility  to  any  of  the  Subjects  of  Us  Our 
Heirs  or  SuccefTors  ;  or  any  of  the  Subjects  of  any  Prince  or  Siate  being  then  in 
League  with  Us,  Our  Heirs  or  SuccefTbrs  •,  upon  Complaint  of  fuch  Injury  done  to 
any  fuch  Prince  or  State,  or  their  Subjects .-  We,  Our  Heirs  or  SuccefTors  will 
make  open  Proclamation,  within  any  part  of  our  Realm  of  England,  fit  for 'that 
purpofe,thePerfon  orPerfons  committing  any  fuchRobbery  orSpoil,(hall  withirt  the 
time  Limited  by  fuch  Proclamation,  make  full  Reftitution  or  Satisfaction  of  all 
fuch  Injuries  done  or  Committed,fo  as  the  faid  Prince  or  others  foCompiaining,may 
be  fully  Satisfyed  andContented  ,  AND  if  the  faid  perfon  or  perfons  who  fhall 
Commit  any  fuch  Robbery  or  Spoil,  (hall  not  nuke  Satisfaction  accordingly, 
within  fuch  time  fo  to  be  Limited,  that  then  We  our  Heirs  and  Succeflbrs,  will 
put  fuch  perfon  or  perfons  out  of  our  Alleagiance  and  Protectioa  •,  and  that  then. 
it  fhall  and  may  be  lawful  and  free  for  all  Princes  or  others,  to  Profecute  with 
Hoftility  fuch  offenders,  and  every  of  them,  their  and  every  of  their  Procurers, 
Aiders,  Abettors  and  Counfellers  in  that  behalf  PROVIDED  ALLSO,  and  our 
Exprefs  Will  and  Pleafure  is,  and  We  do  by  thefe  Prefents  for  Us  Our  Heirs  and 
SuccefTors,  Ordain  and  Appoint,  that  thefe  Prefents  fhall  not  in  any  manner, 
hinder  any  of  our  Loving  Subjects  whatfoever  from  Ufing  and  Exerciling  the 
Trade  of  Filhing  upon  the  Coaft  of  New-England  in  America  ',  But  that  they,  and 
of  every,  or  any  of  them  (hall  have  full  and  free  power  and  liberty  to  Continue 
f doing.  ancj  upe  the  Trade  of  Fifhing  upon  the  faid  Coafts  in  any  of  the  Seas  thereunto 

Adjoining,  or  any  Amies  of-  the  Seas,  or  Salt  Water,  Rivers  and  Greeks  where 
they  have  been  accuftomed  to  Fifh  ;  and  to  Build  and  Set  upon  the  Waft-Land 
belonging  to  the  faid  Colony  &  Plantations,  fuch  Wharfs  Stages  and  Work- 
Houfes  as  fhall  be  necefftry  for  the  Sa!tiag,Drying  and  Keeping  of  their  Fifh  to 
be  taken,  or  gotten  upon  that  Coaft  .-  AND  FURTHER,  for  the  Encouragement 
of  the  Inhabitants  of  our  faid  Colony  of  Providence- Plantations  to  Sett  upon  the 
Bufinefs  of  takeing  Whales  :,  it  fhall  be  Lawful  for  them,  or  *ny  of  them, 
having  Struck  a  Whale,  Dubertus,  or  other  great  Fifh,  it  or'  them  to 
Porfue  unto  any  pare  of  that  Coaft,  or  into  any  Bay  upon  the 
laid  Coaft,  or  in  the  faid  Bay,  River,  Cove,  Creek  or  Shoar  belonging 
thereunto,  and  it  or  -  them  to  Kill  and  order  for  the  bed  Advantage, 
without  Moleihtion,  they  making  no  wilful  wafte  or  fpoil  of  any  thing  in  thefe 
prefents  contained,  or  any  other  matter  or  thing  to  the  contrary  notwith- 
itanding  ',  AND  FURTHER  ALLSO  We  arc  gracionfly  pleafed,and  Do  Hereby 
•&\l-e>-(y  a*  to  declare,  that  if  any  of  the  Inhabitants  of  our  faid.  Colony,  do  feu  upon  the 
Wins*-  Planting  of  Vineyards,  the  Soil  and  Climate  both  feeming  Naturally  to  concurr 

to  the  Production  of  Wines,  or  be  induftrious  in  the  Difcovery  of  Fifhing  Banks 
in  or  about  the  faid  Colony,  We  will  from  time  to  time  give  and  allow  all  due 
and  fittnig  Encouragement  therein,  as  to  others  in  cafes  of  like  Nature.  AND 
FURTHER,  OF  OUR  MORE  AMPLE  GRACE,  Certain.  Knowledge  and  nicer 
Motion,  We  have  Given  and  Granted,  and  by  thefe  Prefents,  for  Us  Our 
Heirs  and  Succefiors,  do  Give  and  Grant  unto  the  faid  Governour  and  Company 
of  the  Englifl)  Colony  of  Rhode-Ifiand  and  Providcr.cc-Plantatons  in  the  Narra- 
sanfet  Bay 'in  New-England  in  America  •,  arid  to  every  Inhabitant  there,  and  to 
Lilcity  11  every.  Perfon  and  Perfons  Trading  thither,  and  to  every  fuch  Perfon  or  Perfons 
as  are,  or  fhall  be  free  of  the  faid  Colony,  full  Power  and  Authority  lio;n 
tJ  to  time  anci  at  aii  times  hereafter  to  take  Ship,  Traufport  and  tarry 

away. 


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away  out  of  kn/  of  Our  Realms  and  D -mi  his,  for  and-  towafds   the   Plan 
tation  and  Difencs  of  th>:  faid  Colon>,  lutn  and  fo  many  of   our  Loving  Sub- 
jetls,  and  Strangers,  as  ft  all  and  will  willingly    accompany    them    in,    and    to 
their  faid  Colony  and   Phntation  •,  except  fuch  Perfon    or  Perfons*    aS  are,    or 
fliall  be  therein  Retrained  by  Us,  Our  Heirs  and  SuccefTors,    or  any    Law  or 
Stature  of  this  Realm.     AND  ALSO  to  Ship    and  Tranfport  all,    and  all  man 
ner  of  Goods,  Gnattels,  Merchandizes,  and  other  things    whatfoevetj,  that    are^          y) 
or  (hall  be  ufeful  or  n-eceffary  for  the  (kid  Plantations^    and    Defence    thereof,  Traajpon 
and  pfually  Trar/ported,  and  not  Prohibited  by  any  Law    of  -Statute  „ of  this  Goodtt 
our  Realm  j  yielding  and  paying  unto  U.-,  Our  Heirs  and  Succeflbrs,  fuch   the 
Duties,  Cuftoms  and  Subfidks,  as  ire,  anrl  ought  to    be    paid,  or    payable    for 
the  fame:     AND  FURTHER,  OUR  WILL    AND   PLEASURE    IS,    and    We 
do  for  Us^  our  Heirs  and  SuccelTdrs,  Ordain,  Declare  and  Grant  unto  the  ft  id-. 
Governour  and  Company,  and  their  Succeflbrs,  ,jhat  all    and    every    the    Sub-'r'"'''    v*» 
Jefts  of  nur  Heirs  and  Succeflbrs,  which  are  already  Phnted  and  Settled  with-       Z>UI 
in  our  f-id  G-lony  of  Providence-Plantations  ;    ot  which  {hall  hereafter    go    to 
Inhabit   wthin  the  faid  Colony,  and.  all    and  every  of   their    Children    which 
have  beeri  Born   there,  or  which  happen  hereafter  to  be  Born  there,  or  on  the 
Sea  going  thither,  Or  returning  from  thence,  (hall  have    and    ertjoy    all    Liber 
ties  and  Immunities  of  free  and  natural  Subjeft?,    within    any    the    Dominions 
of  Us,  our  Heirs  or    Succeflors,    to    all    Intents^    Conftruclions    arid    Purpofes 
W'hatfoever,  as  if  they,  and  eve:  y  of  them  were    Born    within    the.    Realm    of 
England.     AND-  FURTHER  KNOW  YE,    that    We    of   our    more    abundant 
Grace,  Certain  K  owledge,  and  meet   Motion,  have  given,  granted,  and  confirm 
ed  V.and  by  tnefe  Prefents,  for  us,  our  Hei  s  and  Succ  iT>rs,  do   give,    grant  and 
confi'm 'tinto    the   fa'd   Governour   and    Con  pany,    and  their   Sncceflors,  AI  Lg.*W!.fs  OF  ./., 
THAT  PART  OF  OUR  DOM:N'ONS  in    New^Engldnd,.  in    America  ,    Con  CWwy.  ' 
taininj*   the  Nahantick  «nd    Nauhygaitfitt,  alias-,   N.ir.ig.-arjfet-Bay,    and    Countries 
arid  P'rts  adjacent  }  Bounded  on  th'e  Weft,  or  Wefterlv  to  the  middle  or  Chan 
«id  of  t  River,  there  commonly  called,  and  known  bv    the  name  of  Pacatncke ,    a. 
•lias,  Parvcawtutk  River,  and  fo  alo'ig   the  faid    River,  as   the  greater   or   mi  Idle 
Stremi  thereof  reacheth,' o&  lies  up   into   the  North   Country,  Northward   untp 
the  head  thereof,  and  from  thence  by  a  Strait  Line,  drawn   due.  North,   until   i,f 
meet  with  the  Sou'.h  Line  of  the  Maffachiifcrts-Colwy  :    AND  on    the    North    ;H 
Northerly,  by  the  afoief.rrd  South  or  Sauthetly  Line  of  the  MajJachufctts-Col.ony,  otBoimhi 
jPlantatinn,  and  Ex'en  img  toward  the  Eilt,    or   Eifterly,  three   EndlSb  Mi'ks    tp 
the  Eait  North- Eaft,  of  the  molt   Eaft^-rn  and    Northern   parts  of  the  aforejaid 
Narraganfet  Bay,  as  thi  faid  Bay  Htth  or  extenieth  it  felf  from  the  Oce^n,  on  thje 
'South  or  Southerly,  unto  the  mouth   of  the  River  which    runneth    tpw-ards   the 
T^wn  of  Pr.ovidence,  and.  from  thence  along  .the  EafUrly  fide  or  Bank  .of  to e  lard 
Rivfi    h;g'ier,  called  by  the  ntme  o( Sceor/k   River,   up   ta  thr   Fallf,  calfed  .fjof 
tv.ckctt  Falls,  being  the  mod  Wefterlv  Line  of  Plimontb  Colony,  and  fc  from   the 
faid  F  Us  in  i  ftrai^ht  Line  due.  North,  until  it   meet  with  the  aforefaid    Line   of  Nor < ben 
the  Maffackvfetts-Cotony  ',  and  bounded  on  the  South  bv  the  Ocean,  and  in   pjrti-  Bonndt. 
cuHi   rhc  Lands  belonging  to    the   Towns   of   Prwidrr.ce,  Pawtxxtet,    Warvtckt 
M fauom': cuck,  alias,  Parvcatuck,  and  the  reft  upon  the  Mainland,  in   the  Traft  a- 
fore'aid  ^  toge'hsr  wirh  Rjiode-Jjlind^  Block  I/!:tnd,  and  all  the  reft  of  the   Jflands 
and  Banks  in.  the .  N<irrag(infet-E:iyi  and  bordering    upon   the    Coaft   of  the   Traft 
ahiefa^d  ^  (F fliers- I/land  only   txreptedj   Together   with  all   firm   Lands,  Soilsj 
Gr'iunJs,  Havens,  Ports,  Rivers,  Witers,  Filhin^s,    Mines  Royal,  andJ  all    other 
Mines,    Minerals,   Precious  Stones,   Queries,  Woods,    Wood    Grounds,   Rfchs,  General 
Sla'-s,  ahti  all  and  fir.guhr  other   Commodities    Jurifdiftions,    Royalties,  Privi-  Gmnr  if *1I 
ledrje^  Eri.chifcs,   Preheminencies,   and   Hereditaments    whatfoever,  within  iheCnmia^'net, 
laid  Tt{ft,.fJounds,  Lands  and  Khnds  aforefaid  •,  or  to  iheny,  or  any   of  them  be-  and  M:nc. 
longing,  or  in  any  wife  appertaining  .•  lo  have  and   to  hold  the  fame  unto   the  Tnl]>  &c- 
faid  Governour  and  Company,  ,ind   their  SucceiTors,  for  ever  upon  truft,   foi   t"he 
ufe  and  benefit  of  themfelves,  and  their   AlTociates,  Freemen  of  the  faU   Colony,^""  f'ave  nr 
and  their  Heirs  and  AfTigns :  To  be  holden  of  us,  our  Heirs  and    SuccefTois,  as   ov° 
the  manner  of  Eafr  Greenwich  in  our  County  of  AV«r,    in  free  and  common   S'>c- 
ca?e,  and  not  in  Capitc,  nor   by    Knights  Service,   yielding    and  pay'rt*    therefore 
unto  us,  O'H  Heirs  an.1  SacCvfTors,  only  the  fifth  pare  of  all  the  Oir  of  Go'd   and 
Silver,  w'li.-'n    from    time    to   tim;,   aal   at   all    times  hereafter  (hill  be   there 
ha>i  or  obtained,  in  lieu  and    farisfaftion  of  all  Services,  Duties,   Fines, 

C  Torfeitures- 


Tie  Narra. 
ganfci  A'i- 
i'trjlatcd!. 


rover  of 
Appeals. 


Free  Trait 
Vfttli  other 
L'olpnic*. 


C'8] 

Forfeitures  nude,  or  to  hi  nude,  Claims,  Demands  whatfoever,  to  be  to  u?,  our 
Heirs  or  Succeffbrs  •,  therefore  or  there  out  rendered,  made  or  paid  :  .ANY 
GRANT  or  Claufe  in  a  late  Grant  to  the  Governour,  and  Company  of  Connec 
ticut  Colonv  in  America,  to  the  contrary  thereof,  in  any  wife  notwithihnding: 
The  aforefaid  Parvcas-uck  River  having  been  yielded  after  much  debate,  for  the  fix 
ed  and  certain  Bounds  between  thefe  our  faid  Colonies,  by  the  Agenes  thereof  J 
who  have  alfo  agreed,  that  the  faid  Pawcatnck  River  fhall  be  alfo  called  alias  jNar— 
ragcr-Jet  River  ;  and  to  prevent  future  Difputes  thar  otherwife  might  arife  for 
ever  hereafter,  fhall  be  Conftrued,  Deemed  and  Taken  to  be  the  Narraganfef 
River,  in  our  late  Grant  to^Caaneaicuf  Colony  mentioned  as  the  Eafterly  bounds 
of  that  Colony.  AND  FURTHER,  Our  Will  and  Pleafure  js,  that  in.  all  Mat-' 
ters  of  Pu'>lick  Controverfie  which  mav  fall  out  between  our  Colony  of  Provi 
dence  Plantations,  and  the  reft  of  our  Colonies  in  New-England  ,  It  (hall  and  may 
be  lawful,  to  and  for  the  Governour  and  Company  of  the  faid  Colony  of  Provif 
dence- Plantations,  to  make  their  Appeals  therein,  to  us, our  Heirs  and  Succ.flbrs, 
for  Redrifs  in  fuch  Cafes,  within  this  our  Realm  of  England.  AND  that  it  fhall 
be  lawful,  to  and  for  the  Inhabitant?  of  the  faid  Colony  of  Providence-Plantati 
ons,  without  Lett  or  Moleftation,  to  Pafs  and  Repaf?  with  freedom  into  and 
through  the  reft  of  the  Englij/j  Colonies,  upon  their  lawful  and  civil  Occafions  ; 
and  to  Converfe  and  hold  Commerce  and  Trade  with  fuch  of  the  Inhabitants  of 
our  other  EngHJb  Colonies,  as  fhall  be  willing  to  admit  them  thereunto  j  they  be 
having  themfelves  peaceably  among  them.-  Any  Aft,  Claufe  or  Sentence  in  any 
of  the  faid  Colonies  provided,  or  that  fhall  be  provided  to  the  contrary  in  any 
wife  notwithftanding.  AND  Laftly,  We  do,  for  Us,  Our  Heirs  and  Succeffrrs, 
Ordiin  and  Grant  unto  the  faid  Governour  and  Company,  and  thearf  SuccelTors 
by  thefe  Prefcnts,  That  thefe.our  Letters,Pattents, fhall  be  firm,good,eff;:ftajl,  and 
available  in  all  things  in  the  Law,  to  all  Intents,  Conftruftions  and  Pmpofes 
whatfoever,  according  to  our  true  intent  and  meaning  herein  before  Declared  ; 
And  fhall  be  conft rued,  reputed  and  adjudged  in  all  cafes  rnoft  favourable  on  the 
behalf,  and  for  the  beft  benefit  and  behoof  of  the  faid  Governour  and  Comply, 
and  their  Succeflbrs',  although  exprefs  mention  of  the  true  yearly  Value,  or  cer 
tainty  of  the  Premifes,  or  of  any  of  them,  or  of  any  other  Gifts  or  Grants  by 
us,  or  by  any  of  our  Progenitors  or  PredecefTors  heretofore  made  to  the  faid  Go 
vernour  and  Company  of  the  Englijh  Colony  of  Rhode- tfland  and  Providence- 
plantations  in  the  Narraganfett-Bay  in  Nero-England,  in  ^merica^  Jn  thele  Pre- 
fents  is  not  made,  or  any  Statute,  Aft,  Ordinance,  Proclamation  or  Refificlion 
heretofore  Had,  Made,  Enafted,  Ordained  or  Provided,  or  any  other  Matter,, 
Claufe  or  Thing  whatfoever  to  the  contrary  thereof  in  any  wife  notwithftand 
ing.  In  Witnefs  whereof,  we  have  caufed  thefe  our  Letters  to  be  made  Pat 
ients.  "WITNESS  Our  Self  at  Wtftminjttry  the  Eighth  Day  of  July,  in  the  Fif- 
teenth  Year  of  Our  Reign. 


By  the  King, 


A  C>  T 


AND 


LAWS 

Of  His  Majefties 

COLONY 

O  F 

Rhode -Ifland, 

AND 


I    N 


AMERICA 


JS05rO^T,    in     tfEWENGLJFDt 

Printed  by   Johx  Atteti,   for  Nicholas  BOOHS,    ar  the    Sign  of    the 

B  T  Q  L  E    in    LvrnhiS.     11. 


LAWS 

Made  and  Paft  by  the  General  Aflembly  of  His  Majefties  Colony  of 
Rhode -Jfland*  and  Pro-viaeitce-P lactations  in  J^few- England.  Begun 
and  Held  at  tfemport,  the  firft  day  of  March  1665. 

AN  ACT  Regulating  the  Ele&ion  of  General  Officers. 

BE   IT  ENACTED,  by  the  general  Ajfcmbty  of  this  Colony,  and  by'tht  / 
•Authority  tf  the  fame  ,  andit  if  hereby  En«ttrd,~Tlv\t  all  perlons  what-  at   Getxral 
ioever,  that  are  Inhabitants  within  this  Coiony,  and  Admtited  Free-  %k8iont. 
nien'or  the  fame,  flial!  and  may  have  liberty  ta  Vote  for  the  E!e<fting  of  all  the  j-fjetime  n>5 
General  Officer-?  in    this  Colony,  either  in  Perfon,  or  by  Proxy,  upon  the  firft  Enft*d. 
Wtdnefday  of  May.  Annually,  as  is  Exprefs'd  in  our  Charter. 

AND,    Be  it  fu*;hrr   E,n8ed  by  the  *Atitk9ritj  afortfaid,  That  oil  the  firft 
Wedncfday  of  t^-Isj  Annually,  there  Jhall  be  <"hnlen  and  Ele&ed,  one  General 
Recorder,  who  fhal1  be  Secretary  ot  the  Col.inv,  one  Sheritr,  who  fhall  have  General  Rt, 
the  Care  and  Cuftody  of  His  Majefties  Go«l  in  Ar  Wfort,  one  General  Attorney,  enrfa;  sicrif. 


end  one  General   Treafurer  ;  for   the  batter  regulating  and  managing   the 
Affairs  of  the  Government,  and  flwll  be  Cholen  in  manner  as  a^orefaid. 


AND  that  each  and  every  Perlon  that  fliall  vote  by  Proxy,  ftall  "n  the  ,-«. 
Town-Meeting  Day  next  preeeeJing    the  General    EleSion,  openly  in  faid  Proxy  Potts 
Meeting,  deli  vet  in  his  Votes  to  the  Town  Clerk  of  the  Town  wherein  ne  *OB>  '"***• 
dwel1s,with  his  flame  written  at  len^thon  rhe  backlide  or  the  bottom  thereof  j 
which  Votes  fo  taken.,  /hall  be  immediately  fealed   tip  by  the   Town  .Clerk, 
and  bv  him  delivered  either  to  an  Afliftaftt,  Juftic?,  Warden  or  Deputy  of 
,faid  Town,   a«  ftial!  be  by  the  faid   Town  Meeting  appointed  for  the  fame  }  by 
him  to  be  delivered  to  the  Governour,  or  Deputy  Cicveraour  in  Open  Court, 
before  the  Election  proceed. 


AND,  Be  it  farther  Enatttd  by   tat    Authority   afnrtfttiit  That     all  General  cen  to  t 
Officers  (hall    take   the  following    Engagement,    before   they    (hall  Aft  in^.^. 
their,   refpeftive    Offices. 

YOV     A.     B.  are  by  tat  free  Vote  of  the  Free-men  of  thit  Colony  of  Rhode-  Tie  Fan  of 
liland,  and  Providence-  Plantations,  Elttted  unto  the  'Place  of  fa  E 

ttt  this  fad  Colony,  ANT)  Di  folcmnly  £/  gsge  true  Allegiance  unto  Hit  M<tjettyt  ™ent- 
His  Heirs  and  Succeff»rs  to  bear^  and  in  ywr  jaid  Office,  Equal  Juttice  to  dot  unto  all 
ftrfoni,   Poor  and  "Rjch    rvithin  this  Juristiifiion^   lo   the   utmoft  of  ygiar  Skill  and 
A6ltitjf\  without  Partiality,  according  10  the   La&s    EJlabhjhed  ;     or    ifatt-jhalt  be 
Eftabtipied  according  to   our  Charter.,    as  vstH  in  Matters  Millitarj  as  Civil.     And 
this  Engagement  Tou  make  and  give  upon  iht  Peril  of  the  ^Penalty  of  Terjwj. 

The    Reciprocal    Engagement. 

I  Do  in  the  T^ame  and  behalf  of  this  Colmj,    Tiimj&gt  to  ftond  fy  1'OIS  and  t» 
fuppart  you  by  all  due  ajfishtnce   *nd  Encouragement  in  your  'Performance  and 
Execution  of  your  aforefaid  Office,  according  toyeur  Engagement* 

AND  be  it  furtjw  Enxfted  by  the  zAuthtriy  afertfaid.  That  no  Perfon  fhall  DC 

D         • 


Regni     Regis      Caroli     Secundi,     Der.imo         Sexto. 


Elefted  to  the  Place  of  a  Deputy  to  fit  m   the  General  Aflembly  of  this 
Ffie.&nm&    Colony,  but  rhofe  that  are  Free-holders  therein,  and  Free-men  of  the  fame  ; 
Free.bott'ert     And   that  each    refpe&ive   Town  in  this  Colony,  fhall  Chule  and  Elect   their 
Number  of    Deputies   as  Stated  'in  the  Charter,  a:  their   refpective   Town 
Meetings  next  proceeding  fuch  Court  of  AUembly,  for  the  which  they  {hall 
be  Elected.     And  that  the  Town  Clerk  of  each  refpective  Town  (hall  grant 
forth  his  Warrant  to  the  Town  Sergeant  or  Conftable  of  faid  Town,  ro  warn 
fuch  Deputies  as  fhall  from  time  to  time  be  Cholen  in  each  refpective  Town, 
to   attend  the  AifemWies  for  which  they  are  Chofen  -,  and   allb  the  Town 
jfaM  lreufts$.  Clerk    fhall   make  return  of  fuch  Deputy  Chofen  as  aforefaid    co  the  General 
ei.  Recorder  for   the  time   being,  on  the  firft   opening  of  die  Aflembly  \  who  is 

4n<t  j,a»  re.  hereby  appointed  Clerk  of  the  iiutie. 

tune.  I  to  the 

tAnA  be  it  Enatled  \>j  the  tslutliority  aforefaid,  That  when  and  ib  often  as  a'ny 
On  Urgent  Of.  Emergent  occafions  fhall  rquire  an  Alterably  to  be  called  at  any  other  times 
.  then  is   Exprefly  mentioned  in  the  Charter,  that  then  and  in  fuch  Cafes,  the 
Governour,  and  in  his  abfence  the  Deputy  Governour,  fhal),    and  they  are 
U  hereby  fully  Authorized  and  Impowered,  to  Grant  forth  a  Warrant   to  the 
Sheriif,  to  warn  and  require  the  Free-men  of   each  refpective  Tuwn  in  the 
Colony,,  to  Chufe  and  Elect  their  Relpective  Number  ot  Deputies  as  aforefaid, 
to  fuch  Court  as  by  the  Governour,  or  Deputy  Governours  Warrant  fhall  be 
Dire&ed  ,  their  Notification  and  Return  to  be  in  manner  as  aforefaid. 
Dcputiet  fjiJ      And.  be  it  Ena&ed  hy  (he  e^utharity  tforefitul,  That  Each  refpective  Town 
T^eSbilluigs  ft^  pay  unco  their  Deputies,  three   Shillings  per  "Diem  each,  during  their 
*"  attendauce  on  the  Court  of  Aflembly. 

Deputies  fined       And  be   it  Enabled  by  the  Authority   aforefaid.     That  whofbever  •fhall  be 

fori:egj($of    Chofen  a  Deputy  for  any  Town,  to   ferve  in  the  General    Aflembly,  and 

jfeniH'F  six  being  Legally  warn'd  to  attend  the  fame-,  fhall  neglect  or  refufe  to  give  his 

Sfii.'lhgt    <>er  attendance   during  the  Seffion  thereof,  fhall  pay  as    a  Fine,   Six   Shillings 

Diem.  ««•  Diem  toi'  each  and  every  Days  neglect,  into  the  Town  T  reaiury  ot  luch 

Town,  to  and  tor  the  Uie  of  faid  Town.     And  if  the  Ferfcn  fo  Offending, 

{hall  neglect  or  refufe  to  pay   the  fame  as  aforefaid  :   Then  any  one  ct  the 

Alfiftants,  Juft-icesof  the  Pence,  or  Wardens  cffiich  Town  ihali  Grant  forth 

a  Warrant  to  a  Conftable  of  faid  Town,  to  diftrain  fb  much  ot,  the  Perfbnal 

Eftate  of  fuch  Offender,  as  will  pay   the  aforefaid  Fine,   and  all   reatbmble 

Charges  accruing  thereon  •,  and  the   Fine  fb  taken,  to  be  difpufed  of  as  afore- 

tfow  rteovered  laid,  and  the  Clerk  of  the  Aflembly  fhall  return  to  each  relpettive  Town  a 

and  difiofed     Lift  of  all  fuch  as  fhall  be  Delinquent  as    aforefaid. 

/• 

tsfnd  be  it  further  En/riled  by  the  Authority  afereftid,  That  wery  Per  Ion, 
that  {hall  be  Ele&ed  to  the  place  of  a  Deputy  fhall  take  the  following  Engage 
ment  before  he  fhall  act  therein. 


Farm  of  Df-       \7rOL'  A.  B.  Btipg  Chofen  to  the  plttce  of  Deputy,  to  fit  in  tht  Gearral  Afitm\ilyt 
j£   fpJ^Jfj  t'^tfrffencejof  CrC\T^'ulttn»ly  Engage  trueAtttgKinct  ta  HittJM*jtitf 


''"'*'  His  Heirs  and  Succejfirs  to  bear.,  AS  atfo  Fidelity  to.  this  Hit 

Colony  of  Rhode-  Ifiand,  and  Pravjcience-  Plantations,  and  the  Authority 


therein  Efiablffhed  according  to  our  Charter  -,  *x^7\[2)  YOU  dv  further  E>:&*ge 
Right  and  Justice  t»  do  to  all  fPerfons  as  fall  e^fpeal  unto  JY)V  far  ytvr 
Judgement  in  their  refpettive  Cafes.  And  tbit  Efigtgcrncnt  TOV  ibxkc  •  And  Givs 
-jfo»  the  'Peril  of  the  Penalty  of  Ptrjurj. 


Anna     Regni    Regi?     Caroli     Stcundi,     Decimo     Sexto. 


An  A&  for  Declaring  the  Rights  and  Privileges  of  His  Majefties 
Subjects  widiin  this  Colony. 


E    IT  ENACTED  fy  the    general   ^jfembly  if  thif  Colony,  And  \>y  the  %£%%£ 
^iuthnriry  of  the,  fame  it  is  hereby   EnaEted,  That  no    Free-man  fhall  be  foned,  or    ~ic 
Taken  or   Imprifoned,  or  be  deprived  of  his  Free-hold,  or  Liberty,  or  Free  f'^Joflitt 
Cuftoms,  or  Out-Lawed,  or    Exiled  or  otherways  Deftroyed,   nor   fhall     be  ^f/''jf'  f  -c* 
patted  upon,  Judged   or  Condemned,  but    by    the  Lawful  Judgement  of  his  fart  SK? 
Peers,  or  by  the  Law  of  this  Colony  }  And  that  no  Aid,  Tax,  Tailage,  or  -M>  Tax  or 
Cultoit^LoanjBenevolencejGifrjExcifejDuty  or  Impofition  whatfoever,  fhall  ^  Dtt'y  to  l>e 
Laid,  Afleued,   Impofed,   Levied  or  Required  of  or  on  any  of  His  Majefties  *'>t 
Subjeds  within  this   Colony,  or  upon  their   Eftates,  upon  any    manner   of 
Pretence  or  Colour  whatfoevei1,  but  by  the  Act  and  Affent   of  the  General 
Aflembly  of  this  Colony. 

AND  that  no  Man,  of  what  Eftate  and  Condition  fbever,  fhall  be  put  out  of    o 
his  Lands  and  Tenements,  nor   Taken,    nor  Imprilbned,  nor  Difinheretd,  nor** 
Banifhed,  nor  any  ways  Deftroyed,  nor  Molefted,  without  being  for  it  brought  /Jis. 
to  Anlwer  by  due  courfe  of  Law  -,  And  that  all  Rights  and  Priviledges  Granted  M 
to  this  Colony  by  His  Majefties  Charter,  be  entirely  kept  and  preferved  to  all  due  Cota-fr  of 
His  Majefties  Subjedis   refiding,   in    or  belonging  to  the   fame  }  And  that  all  ^ay. 
Men  Profefling  Chriftianity,  and  of  Competent  Eftates,  and  of  Civil  Converfa-  ^  fnfmsof 
tion,  who  acknowledge,'  and  are  Obedient  to  the  Civil  Magiftrate,  though  of  QL"/*'  "^ 
different  Judgmnts   in   Religious   Affairs  (  Roman  Catholicks  only  excepted  )  til  Maei^ 
(hall  be  admited  Free-men,  And  (hall  have  Liberty  to  Chufe  and  be  Chofen  /w«,  fo&rtfl 
Officers  in  the1  Colony  both  Millitary  and.  Civil.  #*«/>  ta  E, 

,  and  lt>'- 


An  Ad:  for  the  Preventing   of  Illegal  and  Clandcrtine  Purchafes 
of  the  Native    Indians    in   this   Colony. 


Efated  to 
Qfetu 


ORASMUCH  as    divers   Terfins  htve   mdde   Pitrchafct   of  LanJt  tti  thii 
Colony  of  the  Indians,    without   the   conftnt   or    approbation    of  the    General 
^   which   manifeftly  tends  to    the    Defrauding  and  Manifest  Injury  of  fuck 
Indians,  **  *>tU  as  defeating  the  Juft  Rights  of  this  Colony. 

>  cftle  Nativti 

E  it  therefore  Enattcd  bj  the  General  Affembly,  and  the  Authority  of  the  fame,  vitflout  tl* 
That  no  Perfon,  or  Perfons  for  the  future,  ftal)  Purchafe  any    Lands    or  'JS// 
Iflands  within  this  Colony,of  or  from  the  Native  Indians  within  the  fame,   but  te  void. ' 
fuch  only  as  are  fo  allowed  to  do  by  the  General  Afiembly,upon  Penalty  of  for- 
letting  all  fuch  Lands  or  Iflands  fo  purchafed,to  this  Colony  3  And  to  Pay  for  fa 
every  fuch  Purchafe  by  them  fo  made,  the  Sum  of  Twenty  Pounds  as  a  Fine,  to 
to  and  for   the   Ufe  of  the    Colony  \   And  all   fuch    Purchafes    lhall  be 
Efteemed  and  Adjudged  Null,  Void,  and  of  none  Effe& 

D  2  An 


jtmo  "JRjgni    Regis    CAROM     Secundi,    Decimo     Sexto. 


An  A£  for  Punifhing  Criminal    Offences. 

E    it   Entitled  by  the  General  Aflemblj,  #nd  by  the  Authority  of  the  fitme, 
That    no  Perfon    fhall   prefume   to  take  upon  him,  or  to  Exercife  (  or 
iate  '"  )  aiTV  Office  or  place  of  Authority  :  And    in  cafe  any  Perion  (hall 
«im  Pret"ume  fo  f°  do>  ami  b6  thereof  lawfully  convifted  in   any  Court  of  Record 
any  Plate  in    in  t-'.is   Colony,  Tnat  then  iiich  Offender  fhall    be  Amerced  according  to  the 
Dilcretion    of    fuch  Court,  not  exceeding  the  Sum  of  Ten  Pounds  -,  And  on 
default    of     Payment    of  the     lame,     to     be  Corporally   Punifhed,  at  the 
Difcretion  of  the  laid   Court. 


Op 


for   th*t     Tt^ffett     and     Obedience    that    is     due    from  Inferiowrt 
to  their  Super  lours. 

SeJt  further  Entitled  by  the  Authority  of  the  fame,  That  if  any  Peffon  fhall 
Threaten,  Aflault,  Strike,  Abufe  or  refuie  to  Obev  any  Genera!  Officer, 
Pk/wwrjtoJ  Juftice  of  the  Peace,  or  Warden,  or  any  other  Officer  in  this  Colony,  in  the 
f^ft^tfobe  Execut!on  ot  h's  Office,  fuch  Offender  or  Offenders  tem^  duty 
"oai  OJpcir,  °to*  convicted  thereof  before  any  fud^e,  or  Cou-t  of  Record  within  this  Colony, 
lefineJ,or  fhall  ba  Amerced  as  fuch  Judge  or  Court  of  Record  fliall  think  fit,  or  (hall 
be  Corporally  Puniihed  at  their  Dilcretio;i,  according  to  the  Nature  of 
the  Offence. 


.  b*  ^  further  En*8td  by  the  Authority  aforrftid,  That  if  any  Child  ot 

Servantt  tote  Servant,  Ihall  contrary  to  their  Obedience  due  to  their  Parents,  or  Matters, 
finttothe  Refift,  of  refufe  to  Obey  their  lawful  command!--,  they  fhail  be  fent  to  the 
Haufs  of  Car.  Houfe  of  Corre&ion,  and  there  to  remain,  until  they  have  Humbled  Them- 

felves  to  their  Parents  or  Matters  Satisfaction  ^  AND  if  any  Children  or 
Jbdtlrfeihtt  Servants,  {hall  prefume  to  Affault,  or  Strike  their  Parents,  or  Matters  ;  upon 
/Inks  tbeir  Complaint  of  nny  fucli  Parent  or  Matter  to  any  AHiihmt,  Juiiice  of  the 
farenti,  &c.  Peace,  or  Warden  of  fuch  Town:  Such  Child  or  Servant  fo  Offending, 
*•  bt  vfy?'*  fhall  be  Whipped,  at  the  Difcretion  of  iuch  Aififtant,  Juftice  or  Warden, 

not  Exceeding   Ten     Lafhes. 


be  it    further    Enttted  by  the    Authority   ttftrefaid?  and   it  is  hereby 
HlghTreafon,  En.ttted,  That  whoibever  fhall  be  Convided  of  High  Treafon,  Petic  Treafbn, 
Wilful  Murder,   or   Man-llaughter  j  fhall     be    Punifhed  for    fuch   Offe.ice, 
according  to  the   Statute   Laws  of  the  Realm  of  England,  with  Death  ;  the 
fumjbcd.  Benefit  of    the  Clergy   referved  where  allowable  :      And  fhall   Forfeit  his 
Lands,    Goods,  and   Chattels,    to   the  Colony,  according  to   His    Majcfties 
Charter-,    to  be  difpofcd    of   by  the  Affembly,  as  they  fhall  think  fit  i  All 
necellary    Charges   of  Pr-olbecution,    Condemnation,     and    Execution  being 
ftrft  duly  deduced. 


be  it  EnaEied  by  the  Authority  aforef«idtTha.t  whofoever  fhall  be  Lawful- 
..  Iy  convicted,  of  Killing  any  Perfbn  by  Chance  Medly  or  Miladventure,  lliall 
tej  &  Mi/ti-L  Forfeit  his  Goods  and  Chattels,  to  and  for  the  IJIe  of  the  Colony-,  And 
venture,  Law  that  the  Governour  as  Chief  Judge,  Jhtll  Releafe  to  fuch  Perfon  his  Goods 
antl  Chattels,  the  Charges,  Proiecution,  &e.  being  duly  paid. 

And 


Kcgni     Regis      Carol  i     Secmndlt     Deeimo         Sexto. 


Be    it   further   EnaRcd  by  the  Authority  afrrefaid*     That  if  any  Peffbn 
Fortune  to  be  Killed  by  a  Carts  £oing  pver  him,   or  by  a  Hprfe's  Kicking  of 
bim,or  by  any  fart  of  Neat  Cattle's  Goring  him  or  Kicking-  or'  hjm,or  by  other 
luch   like    Accident,  that  then   the   Coroner  of   fuch    lown    where    fuch 
cafual  Death  {hall  haprpen  to  ba,  fhall  with  an  Inqueft  of  Twelve  Lawful  Men, 
enquire   into    the  Meanes  of  the  Death  of  fuch  Perfon  •,  and  on  the  Coroners  ^  Demand  to 
Return    that  luch  Perfon  was  Killed  by  any  of  the  aforefaid  Accidents,  &c.  go  forth  uja 
Then  the  Coroner  with  his  faid  Inqueft  upon  Oath,  fhall  Apprize  the  Value  of  °f  tf'f  flw  of 
fuchCarc,  Horfe  or  Keat  Beaft,  &c->  Which  (hall  be  Forfeited  as  a  Peodand,'ier<w"- 
and   given  to  the  Overfeers  of    the   Poor  of   fuch     Town    where     fuch 
Casualty   (hall  happen. 


Be  it  further  Emcied  by  the  Authority  aforefaid,  That  whofoever  fhall 
Wilfully   and  Malicioufly  cut  out  the  Tongues,  pull   out  the  Eyes,  or  cut 
off  the  Ears,   of  any   Pe/fon  or  Perfons    within    this    Colony,  he  ihall  ty. 
Proceeded  again-ft,    Profecuted  and  [Punifhed  j  Ai   by  the  Statute  of  th(  V.  of  p 
Henry  'the   IV.     Chap  $th.    is  Ordained. 

>v*2VCZ>  be  it  further    Enatted  by  the  Authority  aforefatd,  That   Witchcraft  /PfaJo#i 
LS  and  lhall   be  Felony,    And  whofoever  frail  be  Lawfully  convifted  thereof,/"'»'A'^ 
ihall  iufter  the  Pains  of  Death. 


f  it  farther  Enatted  by  the  Authority  afar.tfaiJ,     That  Burglary         '^ 
is  and  Ihall  be.  Felony  :  And  whofoever  fhall  be  Lawfully  convicted  thereof 
ihal}  fuffer  the  Pains  of  Death. 


Be  it  farther  F.n4tteJ  fo  the  Authority  afore  faid,  That  Robbery  is  and 
be  Felony,  and  whofoever  fhall  lawfully  be  convicled  thereof,  ihall  fuffer 
the  Pains  of  Death.  And  upon  Complaint  made  to  any  Affiftantjuftice  of"  the 
Peace,  or  Warden  of  any  Town  within  tha  Colony,  of  a  Robbery  committed  Death. 
therein,  fhall  forthwith  Grant  forth   a  Warrant  to  a  Conftable  of  faid  Town,  Wwront 
to  make  Hue  and  Cry  after  fuch  Robber  or    Robbers,  for  the  Apprehending^7^  ^  ; 
and  Taking  of  them:    And  fuch  Proceedings  fb  being  made  in  fuch  Townj^cy,,^. 
wherein  any  Robbery  fhall  be  Committed,    (hall   not  be*  chargeable  lor  thefrefiead  P.d* 
Monies,  Goods  and  Chatties  of  the  Peribn  fb  Robbed. 


Its  it  further  Erj.tBed    by  the  ^Authority  afortfltid,     That   in     any 
Town  of  the   Colony,  where  a  Forceable  Entry,  or  Detainer  of  Lands  or 
Houles,  fhall  happen  to  be  committed  or  done  by  any  Perfon  or  Perfons  foreeaUe  En. 
whatfoever,  upon  Complaint  or   Information   thereof   given  by  the  Party  ''?  ""^  ®*~ 
Agrived   to  any  Two  or  more  Afliftants,  Juftices  of  the  Peace,  or  Wardens''"""' 
of  the   Town  where  fuch  Houfe  or  Land  lyes,  The  faid  Afliftants,   Juftices, 
or  XVardens  fhall   Iffue  out  their  Warrant  to  the  Sheriff  of  the  Colony,  or  his 
Deputy,  requiring  him  in  the  Kings  Name  to  Impanel  a  Jury  of  Inqueft,  of  w 
Twenty  Four   good  and  lawful  Ment  of  tha   Neighbourhood  to  come  before  ^Med'ou' 
them,  to   make  Enquiry  upon  Ondi   or   Engagement  concerning  the  fame  \Sbenf  Q°  i>\* 
And  in  Cafe  the  laid  Jury   fhail  find  the  Bill   or  Complaint  agaiiift  fuch  Deputy,  tt 
Perfon  or  Pe'rfons  complained  of,  That   then  fuch    Ailrftants,  Juftiess  Or^""s/rf 
Warden's,    ihall  caufe  fuch  Force  to  be  removed,  reflate  to   the  Perfan  or     •/- 
Perfons  complaining,  peaceable  pofleffion  of  tha  fame* 

RreeaMe  En, 

'Provided    Always,  That   fuch  Complaint  or  Information  appears   to   bel/^,/ 
made  within  three  years  after  iuch  Forceable  Entry  and  Detainer  be  Commie-  wi/^i»  fi 
ed,  and  not  after.     Provided  alfo,  That  if  upon  the  iaid  Juries  ftnding  the/fa//. 

£  Bill 


Regni    Regis     Caroli     Secunai,     Dccimo  Sexto. 


ivy  .Bil1  aga'nft  fuch  Perfon  or  Pcrfons,  That  if  fuch  Perfon  of  Perfons,  fhall 
tj  tst7ic  Offer  to  Traverle  the  laid  Complaint  or  Infomancion,  and  defire  to  Remove 
t'oitrt  of  Try.  the  lame  to  the  next  General  Court  of  Tryals  of  this  Colony,  there  to  Try 
the  fame,  and  give  good  and  fufficient  fecurity  to  the  faid  Afiiftants,  Juftices. 
or  Wardens,  tor  Prolecuting  the  lame,  And  to  Pay  all  intervening  Charges 
and  Damages  in  cale  they  {hall  be  Condemned  at  fuch  general  Court  of  Trya!s- 
That  then  luch  Affiftants,  Juftices,  or  Wardens,  /hall  forbear  to  deliver 
PoiTeffion  to  the  Party  and  Parties  complaining,  until  they  {hall  receive  the 
Order  or  Judgment  of  fuch  General  Cow.  of  Tryals  for  their  io  doing. 

AND    Be    it  Ent&ed  by    the    Authority  aferefaid.     That    the    Affiftants, 
Juftices  of  the  Peace,and  Wardens,  in  cale  of  any  Refinance  made  in  the  due 
performing  their  Duties  by  this   Adi  required  about   Forceable  Entries  or 
7VrH/r  .TJi/-    Detainers,  may  Command  the  Affiftance  of  any  of  His   Majefties  Subje&s  of 
t^  this  Colony,  who  are   Required  to   Aid  them  therein,  under  the  Penalty  of 
Twenty  Shilling}  to  each  Perfon  that  ihall  refute  fo  to  do  ••,  To  be  recovered  by 
tl"  ir  ^u't>  Infc>rmat'on,  before  any  one  Affiitant,  Juftice  ot  the  Peace,  or  Warden 
t,  Ju/l~.  of  this  Colony. 

AND  the  faid  Fine  of  Twenty  Shilling!  fa  Recovered,  to  be  Paid  into  the 
Town  Treafury,  for  the  Ufe  of  the  Town,  where  fuch  Forceable  Entry, 
and  Detainer  ihall  be  committed. 


'Be  it  further   Enatted  by  the  Authority   aforeftid,     That    in    caft 
the  Jury   of  Inqueft   on  inquiry  as  aforefaid,  fhall  not  find  the  faid  Bill  or 
Complaint  againft  the  Perfon  or  Perfons  Complained  of  as  aforefaid,  That  then 
ConplaL   l^e  Perlonor  Perfons  Complaining,  flull  be  Condemned  by  the  faid  Affiftants, 
fay'   Juftices,    or    Wardens,    To     pay  the    Colls     of  Courts  as  is    Ulual    in 
Ca/l.   other  Cafes. 


AND  be  it  jurthrr    Enatftd  bt  tke  ^Authority  aforefad^     That  if  the'  Sheriff 
'abit    or    his  DiePuty5  to  whom   fuch   Affiftauts,  Juftices,  or  Wardens  Warrant  is 
io'ii>f-  delivered,doth  not  duly  Execute  the  fame  ^  That  he  fhall  Forfeit  the  Sum  of 
e  Jf.     Twenty  Pounds,  Lawful  Money,  to  beRecovered  by  Bill,  Information,  Suit,  or 
IVst-  Complaint!  in  any  Court   of  Record  within  this  Colony. 

*  } 


^  fit  it  further  Enatted  by   the  Authority  afortfaiJ,     That  all  Perfons 

that  toal5  be  LawfullX     Conviaed  of  a  Riot,  fh-il!  Suffer  Twelve  Monthes 
,  Imprifonment,  of  Pay  a  Fine  of  Ten  Ttundi,  to  the  Ufe  of  the  Colony. 

<#  a  Pine  of 

TcnPmtndt.  AND  be  it  ftftber  Enacted  by  the  tstuthority  aforefaid^  That  any  Affiftantr^ 

Fm  for  head  Juftice  of  the  Peace,or  Warden,  in  this  Colony  }  upon  Coiiviaing  any  Perfon 

•of  Fencefnoi  or  Perlbns  before   him  for  Breach  of  the  Peace,  by  Striking,  <?c.  Shall  and 

to  exceed  may  pme   fuch  Offender  or  Oifenders  at  Difcretion,  not  Exceeding  Twenty 

Tmnity  Sbil.  shilling^  or  Bind    them  over   to  the  General  Court   ot  Tryals,  with  two 

found  o-cvtl*  Efficient  Sureties  according  as  the  Nature  of  the  Offence  may  require. 

i/lNJ)  be  it  farther  Enabled  by  the  .Authority  tfortfaid,  That  in  all  Cafes 
of  Affault  Or  Battery,  the  Party  Affaulted  or  Battered,  (hall  have  aa  Adion 
Satiety  tote  ^  Trefpafs  at  die  Common  Law,  againft  the  Perfons  Committiiig  fuch 
ww  Lilr.  °  '  Af&ult,  or  Battery,  ihall  Recover  his  Damage  Received  thereby. 

Bur.      ANT)  be  it  Enaftcd   by  the   sstutherity    tfortfatl,   That    whofoerer   ftall 
yt  Perpetrate  and  Commit  the  Deteftable  and  Abominable  Crimes  ot  Sodomy, 
ivita  or  Buggery,    and  be  thereof    Lawfully  Cotwifted,  fhall  fuffer  the  Pains  of, 
-,  as  in  cafes  of  Felony,  with  the  benefit  of  Clergy.  And 


Ttjgni*   Regis     Caroli      StcxnUij      Decirho     Sexto. 


At  it  farther    Emitted  by    the    Authority    afarefaid,    That  whofofivcr 
fhall  Commit  Fornication,    niui  be  thereof  Lawfully  Convicted  before  any  two 
Afllftants,  Juftiees  of  the    Peace,  or  Wardens  of  the  Town  where  filch  Fa& 
fliall    be  Committed,  (the   Affiitants,  Juftiees,  or, Wardens,  are  hereby    fan- "*****• 
po'.vered  the  Cognizance  thereof,  )  fliall  be  publickly  Whipped  in  faid  Town  The  puwft. 
where  fuch  Facfc  (hall  be  Comrilitted  wfth  Ten  Stripes  and  no.  more,  or  pa?  a  mtnt  tlcrt'of 
Fine  of  Fortj  Shillings  into  the  Town  Treafury,  to  and  for  the  Ufe  of  the 
Poor  of  fuch  Town. 

AN®  *B«  it  further  En.tftcd  by  ths  Authority  aforefaid,  That  whofoeye'r  tlxft. 
fhall  Steal  or  Purloyn  any  Moneys,  Goods,  Wares,  or  'Merchandize  i  And^" •  tlxfrji 
be  thereof  Lawfully  Convicted,  at  the  General  Court  of  Tryals,  (  who  are °fynce\'^ 
hereby  fully  Imp'owered  to  have  Cognizance  ot  the  fame  )  either  by  Confef-  J'  ,/, ' 
fion,  or  by  the  Evidence  of  two  pcrlbns  upon  Oath  or  Engagement,  Ihall  for  ot  belt 
the  firft  Offence,  Reftore  to  the  Owner  of  fuch  Moneys,  Wares,  Goods,  °f  Fwd'at 
and  Mercn«idi/es,  fb  ftoleri  two"  fold  ;  And  fhall  be  Whipp'd  or  Fined  at  ^l"?'0?'  , 
the  Difcretionof  the  Judges  of  faid  Court  j  And  upon  a  fecond  Conviction  o/eme,  to°re, 
ot  fuch  Offerice,  to  P.eftore  two  fold  as  aforefaid  to  the  Owners  of  fachjiore  twofold 
.  Moneys,  Wares,  Goods,  Merchandizes,  fo  Stolen,  and  four  fold  to  the to  tj>e 
Colony  \  And  be  Whipp'd,  dr  Fined  at  Dilcretion,  by  the  Judges  *niff 
of  faid  Court.  ' 

&c.  as  afore* 
*A1$T)  Be  it  further  Entfted  by  the  Authority  aforcfoid,  That  if  the  petroi 

Offendingj  and  convict    thereof  as    aforefaid,     fhall    not    have    Goods  and 
Chattels  lufRcient  to  fatisfy  and  Pay  the  Judgement  of  fuch  Court  as  aforefaid,  Eiht"  t  r 
That  then  and  in  fiich  Cafes,  the  Offender  (hill  be  Sold   bv  the  Sheriff,  by  tttftMafae* 
the   Dire<aion    ot'the  Judges  of  faid  Court,  to  fatisfy  fuch  Judgement  as  fliall/"-/.  the  Of. 

be  given  as  aforefaid.  $£&&&,  ^ 

Sold  toj.itisjid 

vAT^D  be  it  further  En&ed  by  the  Authority  afore f*id,   That  if  any  Officer1^ 
within   this  Colony,  fliall  Exa^t  or  Extort  any  more  or  Greater  Fees  than  by  ^3  Ofe'erto 
Law  is  ftated  him,  or  that  under  pretence  ot  Executing  his  Office,  fhal)  Levy  ta_kej"oret^ 
Jmy'  more    or  Greater  Sums  of  Monies,   &c.     Than    by  any    Judgement,  On  the  V—. 
Execution,    Order  or    Decree,    he   is    Ordered   or  allowed  to  do,   and   be  ti  of  treble 
thereof   Lawfully   convifted,    he  fhall   Forfeit  to  the  party  agrieved  treble-^ 
Damages,  which  (hail  be  (  according  to  the  Damage  received  )  Recovered 
by  the  party   agrieved,  before  any  Court,  of  Judge  of  Record,  by  Action  of 
Trelpafs   upon    the  Cafe. 


be    it    further      Enatiert     bf    the      Authority  afarefaid,    That    if 
Perfon  fhall  wrongfully  and  Malicioufly,  Spoil,  Burn  or  Deftfoy  any  Frame 
prepared  for  Building  of  either  Houfe,     Mil),  or  Barn,  or  fpoil  any  Cart,  or  :c 
Wood  heaped  and  prepared  for  Coals,  or  other  Ufe  ^  or  cut  out  the  Tongue  6r  Qob 
6f  any  B«aft    being  aiive  ;  or  fhall   barke  Fruit  Trees,  or  procure  any  of  the  kwf  of 
faid  Offences  to  be   done  ;  The  Perfon  fo  Offending,  fliall   pay   the  Owenr  Tnti,  to 
thereof  Treble   Damages,  with  coft  of  Court,  and  pay  a  Fine  to  the  Ufe  0{tiel;leD!t»!"- 
the  Colony,  according  to  the  D'ireftiott  of  the  Judges  of  the  Court,  where  ^\  pint 
fiich   Offender  frjall  be  convicted.  tbtCtluy; 

AND   if  any  Perfon  flinll  Wrongfully  -ah'd  Malicioufly  Cut  or  tale  away 
Corn  growing,  or  Rob  any  Orchard  or  Garden,or  break  or  cut  any  Hedge,Pale,  . 
Raii  or  Fence-,  or  Digg  up,  Cut  down,  Spoil  or  carry  away,  any  Fruit  Trees,  Titfy.ijTtr. 
or  (hall  Cur  down  or  Deftroy  any  other  fort  of  Trees  fhmding  -,  or  ihall  put 
any  Beaft  into  the  Field  of  another,  without  the  knowledge  or  content  of  r  lie 

E  2  Own«r 


Arm     l^jHni     "J^fgis     Caroli     Seryadi,     Decitno 


tf  be    La 
not  "'  contr 


The  Trefr.i/er  Owner  of  the  Field  ;  And  {hall  be  duly  conviGed  thereof,  fhall  Pay  to  the 
to  p.v  treble  Parry  Grieved  treble  Damages  and  coft  of  Court  :  And  ihall  pay  to  the  Ufe 
of  the  Colony  fuch  Fine,  KS  by  the  Judces  ot  the  Criirt 
where  inch  Offender  or  Offenders  (half  be  Convift,  ftall  be  thought 
realbnable  "for  the  fame.  And  in  cafe  fuch  Offender  or  Offenders  have  not 
KJlai€ttobt  fufficient  Eftate  to  Pay  fuch  Fines  as  he  or  they  fliall  be  Amerced,  then 
few  to  //*  fuch  Offender  or  Offenders,  fhall  be  fen  t  to  the  Houfe  of  Cor  region,  thereto 
Hmtfe  of  Cor.  rema;n  until  the  farae  be  fatisfied  and  paid. 

cxf  ND  "Be  it  further  Entitled  by  the   Authority  aforefaiJ,  For    the  preventing 
of"  Fraudulent  Dealngs  in  Bargains  and  Contracts  •,  That  ho  Bargains    nor 
Contrafts,  for  above  the   value   of  Ten  Pounds   fhall  be  vallid  and  "binding  in 
w,  unlefs    the    lame   be  reduced  into  Writing,  and  Signed  by  the  parties 
trading,  in  the   Prefence  of  one  cr  more  credible  Witnefs  or  WjtnefTes  ; 
And  that  all  Verbal  Contra&s,  for  ^ny  matter  under1   the  value  of  Ten  'Pounds, 
fhallbe  we'll  and  fufficiently  proved,  by  the  Evidence  of  one  or  mqre  credible 
Ho*  framed    \vicnefs  or  WitnefTes,  otherwife  to  be  Null   and  Void  in  the  Law.     And  that- 
'        if  any  Per  foh  fhall  Ufi?  any    Fraud  or  Deceit  in  Ba^ains  or  Contrads  with 
nt      any  Perfbn  t  The  Perfbn  Cheated  or  Deceived  thereby,  (hall    have  his  Action 
of  Trafpafs  a^ainft  the  Perfon   Offending  therein,  and   Recover  Treble  hii 
tre*  p.:;«.i-  Damages  with  coft  of  Suit. 

gts  to  t-ie 
fti'fyn  agritv- 

tt.  AND  be  it  further  Flatted  by  the  Authority   tjortfatd,   That    alj     Bonds, 

frmiittlent  Bills,  Deeds  of  Sale,  Gifts^  Grants,  or  other  Conveyances,  or  Obligations 
to'^/elve"  whatf°ever.>  that  {hall  be  made  by  any  Perfon  .with  intent  to  defraud  or 
Creditors.  deceive  others,  or  defeat  fuch  Perfon  or  Per  Tons  Credirors,  of  their  Juft 
To  be  isid  in  Debts  and  Due?.  That  all  fuch  Bonds,  Bills,  Deeds  of  Sale,  Gifts,  Grants  or 
ilieLtw,  -and  other  Conveyances  or  Obligations  whatfbsverjfliall  be  Null  Void  and  of  none 
JftaJJ'Jt  Effeft  i  And  the  Party  injured  or  agrieved  thereby,  ihall  Recover  his  double 
He  Cojli*  "  Damages,  together  with  coft  of  Suit. 


Ke  it  further  Enatted  by  the  Authority  aforefnttd^  That  in  cafe  any 
Perfon  or  Perfons,  fhall  be  Lawfully  convifted  of  Conlpiracy,  .  according  to 
Co-fintert  tne  Scatate  °*  the  XXXIII.  Edward  the  i  ft.  Entitled,  a  Definition  of  Con* 
&  Cf!i»ipe>~  fpirators,  or  fhall  be  convi£ed  of  Champerty  -,  he  or  they  that  ihall  be  fo 
ton  to  lc  l,n-  convicted,  (hall  Suffer  On&  Years  Imprifonment,  and  make.  Fine  to  the 
frijbn'd  one  Colony,  as  the  Judges  of  the  Court  where  fuch  Perfon  or  Perfons  is  Convifled 
year,  anJ  a  fall  award  -,  Snd  the  party  agrieved,  lhall  have  his  Remedy,  and  recover  his 
'  Damages  by  an  Adion  of  Trefpafs  on  the  Cafe, 

PROVIDED  always,  That  this  Aft  fliall  not  Extend,  to  any  Perfon  or 
Perfons  who  Honeftly  and  without  any  Unjuft  Defign,  fhall  aflift.with  Monies 
or  otherwife,  fuch  Perfon  or  Perfons  as  are  not  of  Eftate  or  ability  fufficient 
to  carry  On  a  fuit  in  Law,for  the  Recovery  of  their  Juft  Right  and  Efiate. 


Be  it  further  Unfitted  by  the  Authority  afortfaid,  That  in    call  any 
perfon  or  perfons  being  Impanelled  and  Sworn   upon  a  Jury,  ihall  take  any 
3Vb  '•fin-b  to    Rewar^  to  tring  in  a  Verdi£t,or  in  cafe  any  perfon  fhall  Embrace  a  Juror  fo  to 
take  a  BWe.    do,  the  Parties  both  Giving  and  Receiving  fuch  Reward,  being  thereof  duly 
T/x?  tl,.\t  are  Attaint,  in  any  Court  of  Record,  according  to  the  Statute  of  the  XXXVIII. 
guilty  of»^    Of  Edroard  the    •>,&.    CHAP.    ilth.    fli?.ll  pay  Five  times  the    Value  of  fuch 
to*£ffZ  Rfiward  j  One  half  to  the  Ufe  of  the  Colony,  and  the  other  half  to  fuch 
\\ilne  fffttc  6  Informer,  as  /hall  Sue  for  the   fame  }    And  on  default  of  payment^  ihall  be 
Imprifoned  One  Year  In  the  Houfe  of  Correction. 

And 


Regttt     R'gis      Caroli     Secundi,     Decirao         Sexto. 


JND  be  it  further  Ehnttcd  by  the  t^uthoritjf   afarrfaiJ,  Thit  if  any  Perfon  fc°^"ifp',''*') 
fhall  Forge,  Raze,  Embezel  or  take  away  any  Record,  Writt,  Return    or  ftrofcfe,  Li 


i  .  .  .-frifmvunt 

Pleas*  or  alter  Verdifts,  or  fhall  be  Procuring,  or  Confederating  or  Abetting  and  Jin 
fuch  Doine;'.-,  Such  Perf  w  or  Perfons  being  thereof  duly  Attainted,  'fhali  be 
Imprifon^d,  and  Grievduily  Fined,  according  to  the  Difcreuon  of  the  Judges 
of  fuch  Court,  whefe  fuch  Perfon  or  Perfons  fhaH  be  Attainted  ;  And  fuch 
Perfon  or  Perfons,  as  fhnll  be  Agrieved  thereby,  fhail  have1  Remedy  by  Action, 
to.Recover  his  or  their  Damages. 

An  Ad  for  the  Eftablifhing  Weights  and  Meafures 
throughout  this   Colony. 


BE  it  Emitted  by  the  General  Affembly,  And  by  the  f^tuthontj  of  the  fattttj 
That  during  the  fitting  of  the  General  AfTembly  in  May  Annually,There 
fiiaJl  be  Annually  Chofe  and  Elefted,  by  the  General  Afiembly,  One  General 
Sealer,  who  mall   provide  and  procure  at  the  Colonies  charge,  a  Standatd  of 
each  and  every  of  the  Weights  and  Meafures  following  •,  viz..     One   hal 
Bufhel,  One  Peck,  One  half  Pdck,  One  Ale  Quart,  One  Wine  Ona'rr,  One 
Wine  Pint,  and  One  VVine    half  Pint.     One  Yard,  One  half  Hundred,  One  in  May 
Quarter  of  a  Hundred,  One  Fourteen  Pound,  One  Four  Pound>  One   Two 
Pound,  One  one  Poundjand  One  half  Pound  Weight  ;  which  fliall  be  accord-^ 
ing  to  the  Standard  of  His  Majefties  Exchequer  in  the  Kingdom  of  England. 
AND  That  each  refpeiive'  Town  fhall  provide  one  Standard,  of  all  the  above-  A 
Jfeid  Weights  and  Meafures,  which  fhall  be  proved  and  Sealed,  by  the  General 
Sealer  of  the  Colony.  AND  that  the  Free-men  of  everyTown,  {hall  at  the  ufual 
time  of  Eledion  of  Town  Officers,  Annually  Chufe  aPerfbn,to  proveand  Seal  all 
Weights  and  Meafures  throughout   fuch  Town,  with  fuch  a  Seal  or  Mark,  as  to  pmnfa  a 
ihall  be  by  each  Town  appointed  :  who  {ha.ll  be  Engaged  faithfully  and  duly  StonJari  cf 
to  Exercife  faid  Office.     AND  if  any  Perfon  ftiall  b:?  found,  to  Sell  or  Buy  SjSj/1* 
by   falie  Weights  or  Meadires,  fuch  Perfon  being   thereof  duly    Corvifted  btf \soed  I* 
before  any  Qne  Afliftant,  Juftice  of  the  Peace  or  Warden,  in  fuch  Town, -the   ' " 
fhall  Forfeit  and  Pay  to  the   Ufe  of  fuch  Town,  for  the  firft  Offence,  Si* 
ShiHingt  and  Eight  Pence,  and  for  the  fecond  Offence,  Thirteen  Shillings,  and  for 
the  third  Oifence,  fliall  Forfeit  and  Pay  Twenty  Shillings,  and  for  Example  to 
Others,  fhall   ftand  in  the  Pillory,  in  fbme  Pablick  p!ac£  in  (uch  Town,  for 
the  fpace  of  One  Hour. 


Perfons, 

V"'»fcl*i««jJ       -     — —--'ujj         -«».-y       »*•«       *^r  *-  ,•  *  •  i  L  --      »»  «  •  j          *^'  *  **     *-'*      i—ii^  uj       LV,  i  i^*  i  t-J  L:     L>V     l»4J*i     i^VT  1  fTi  LACl~ 

tion  or  taking  a  way  the  good  Name, 'Fame  or  Credit  or  Eftate  of  any  Perfon, 
'and  whereby  fuch  Perfon  may  be  Reafonably  thought  to  ba  Hurt  or  Damni 
fied,  fucff  party  fo  'Hurt  or  Damnified  thereby,  fhall  or  may  take  h"  is  or  their 
Suit  againft  fuch  Offender,  and  Recover  his  juft  Damages  }  And  the  Offender 
therein  upon  Conviction,  (hall  be  Fined  by  iuch  Court,  Alfiftunt,  Juftice  of 
the  Peace  or  Warden  before  whom  Convicted,  not  exceeding  the  Sum  of 
Twenty  Shillings. 

F 


TO  Anni     CRjtftf*     'Rjis     Carol!     Sfamdi      Becirnb 


t 

^  AND  /»*  it  further-  En.t1^  fd  by  the  Authority  afortfaid,  That  .iny  Perfon  what- 
vjjy  I'cfore  f"K:v:)-,  That  Dull  dvitraft  and  Agre-.1  with  any  Servant  for'  one  Years  Service,  or 
ibnlitate^  more  or  lefs  time',  Ihail  not  put  away  his  or  her  faid  Servant,  before  the  time  as 
txpireJ,'nuo  Agreed  on  be  expired,  unlefs  upon  good  and  fufficienf,  -caufe  made  appear,  before 
MI/  vM;U.vifc  ,,„,>  ,n.  niorc  Affifl^nr,  juilice  of  the  Pea.ce  or  Warden'  of  (aid  Town,  where  Paid 
StetesL  ,  ^ftcr  or  Mi  ft  re  Is  Dwells-,  AND;  if  any  Matter  or  Mi  ft  re  f»  of  any  Servant  or 
tlto/efhat'fitt  fervants,  fhall  put  awav  .my  fuch  Servant,  before  the  time  Agreed  be  expired;- 
t;,l''w  .«;",,:/'  he  or  fhe  Co  doing  without  a  fufficient  dileh?.rgj  from  one  or  more  Alfiiranrs, 
miti',,'-*  'bee-  jufticos  of  the  Pence  or  Wardens  of  faid  Town,  fhall  Forfeit  to  juch  Servant 
unto.  ac.rieved,  Forty  Shillings  in  Money,  to  be  Recovered  before  any  Two  AAiflants, 

Ji.ftices  of  the  Peace   or  Wardens  of  fuch   Town, 

s?l\'D  be  it  further  Enacted  by  the  Authority  of  ore]  a  id,  That  no  Servant  hired 
v  r,  as  aibrefiud,  for    any    term  of    Time,  fnall   depart  from  the  Service  of  his  Gid 

h^faL.    Miller  or  Mi  it  re  fs,  until  fuch.time  of  Secv'ic-?  as  agreed  on  between  them  be  fully 
Z-B  Mallets       ended,  without  fome  }afttfi<tble  catu%  as  ih?.l!  he  allowed  of,  under  fhe  Hind  of 
Stnir*  mitt,  one  or  more  Affiftants,  Juib'ces  of  the  Peace  or  Wardens  'of  Tiid  Town,  xvhere 
outleare.        his  Mafr^r  or  Miftrefi   lhall    dwell  -,  And  that  if  any  fervant,  (hall  depart  from 
his  f.*?d  Mifter  or  Mittrefles  Service  (  before  his  Term  or  Tiiwe  of  Service  agreed 
on  be  fully  ended  )  without  Licence,  firft  had  or  obtained,    from  one  or  more 
AfTiftant,   Juftice  of  the  Peace  or  Warden  of  faid  Town  as  aforeAid,  f|iatl  for 
his  or  her   Offence,  upon  due  prbaf  thereof,  before  any  one  or  more  Affiftants, 
Ife  Serrani    jnftices  Of  £;ne  pe2ce  or  Wardens  of  faid  Town,  fhall  be  Committed  to  Prifon, 
mALictnct'    t!lere  to  rema'n»  untl1  ^e  or  ^e  f°  doiaS>  ^^  Efficient  Surety,  to  perform  his  oc 
tofecomrt   het  Contraa,    as  agreed  on. 

"tad  to  Goal. 

W^ofoever  re-      ANT)  be  it  farther  Ex.vrcd  iy  fix   Authority  aforcfaid.  That  whofoever   fhall 
tainc  Servant  Wittin?!','  or  Knowingly,  Retain  any  fuch    hired   fervent  as  aforefaid,    that    is, 
xit  Izrfufy      noc  tawfuily  difcharf,ed  .  as  afclrefud,  fhal!  for  every-  fuch  Offence,  Forfeit  to  the 
frfcli.ir%ed.jba.il  perf0n  agrieved   thereby,   Fine    Pounds*  "to  be    Recovered    at    any  Court    of 
Record,  by  Aaion  oi  tae 


be   it  further  F.na'ded  by  the,  Authority  aforefaiel,  That'  no  Artificer  or 
Handicrafts-man,  Thar  flu!  I  Agree  or  Contmft  with   any  Perfon,  for  the  Per- 
forming  of  any   P'iece  cr  Parcel  of  Work,    Relating   to    his     or  their   feveral 
Occupations,  or  wall  Agree  to  Work  for  any  certain  time,  iliall  depart  from  his 
or  tl)eir  Wori,  before  the  fame  be  finifhed. 

AND  That  if  any  Artificer  or  Handicrafts-mail,  upon  any  Contract  with  any 
Perfon,  for  the  performing,  any  Work  as  aforefaid,  /hall  Depart  and  Leave  his 
faid  Work  before  finifhed,  without  the  Leave  or  AfTent  of  his  Employer, 
ftall  Forfeit  to  the  Perfon  Agrieved  thereby,  Five  Pounds^  to  be  Recovered  in  any 
Court  of  Record  within  this  Colony,  by  Aftion,  of  the  Cafe, 


AND  be  it  further  Enabled  by  the  Authority  aferefnid,  That  *ach 
in  this  Colony,  fhall  carefully  provide  •  for  the  Relief  of  the  Poor,.  Sick, 
to  and  Impotent,  of  fuch  Town,  who  are  not  capable  of  Providing  for  themfelves  ; 
'And  alfo  to  Employ  or  put  out  to  Service,  all  fuch  Young  and  Able  Perfon?, 
irovn  pom.  as  are  not  of  fufficient  Eftates  to  maintain  themftlves,  or  which  through 
jlmlto  pit  on't  Idlenefs,  may  be  likely  to  become  a  charge  cr  damage  to  fuch  Town  : 
to  Service  fuci>  And  for  the  effectual  performing  thereof,  fliall  Annually  at  the  time  of  Bwfthm 
atnllktfy-u  of  Town  Officers,  Eltft  and  Chufe  Overfters  of  the  Pcor,  who  are  from 
f.ecamc  cbar.  t;me  to  t;mCj  to  give  in  their  Information  to  the  Town  Council  there*!, 
^tnnle.  wjjO  Up0n  fah  Infojrmatlbn.j  are  to  take  fuch  courfe  for  the  Effeftrt^; 

*;    r»ll",  A    thereof,    as     to  them    {hall    Jeern     pyoper    and    needful,     Agreeable    to    the 
**?££»  Statute  of  the  XLIU.   of  ELIZABETH     CHAP;   ad. 
'  losfti  annually, 

AND 


SecaiJ.1,       Dccimo1    SeKto. 


>  5#-  it  En&cA   by    tit   '  iJvtbaritj    tf&efcd,     That    any  -AffiftJint,    ™^ 

jufticc  of  the  Peace  or  Warden,  fhall    and  may  upon  Lawfully    convicting  ^ewt$efa 

of  any  Perfoii  oc  Ferions  being  Drunk,  either  by  one  fuffictent   Evidence,  or  f^c  Sb-;iing 

1    __.    I—"   -  L.T  »i  -i  T*  i  1  .•    --IITA       *•  ?<•  /-i^y^  j\  r         LT.t-i  <-»      4it/*r*       IV^.V    ..*      •/A     firrafi/'i-i  rtfT  j     ~i*tsi;»      x'i  .»/?«"«***    OJ    /£/    771   //>£ 


on  a  lecana  convrctio  iijte  unence,  lucn  rcnon    uuui  a  ••— 

Fine  7e»  Shillings,  tonnd  for  the  Ufe  aforefiiitl  ^  And  he  bound  to  his  Good  '*in,f° 
Behaviour,  vvkh  two  fufEcient  Surrie?,-  in  the  Sum  of  Ten  Tounds^  to  die  nest 
lucceeding  General  Court  ofTryals. 

PROVIDED  always,  that  fuch  Complaint,  be  made  tthhm  Ten  Days  after 
fuch  'Offence   be  committed. 


"Be  it  further    Enaiicd    by  ibe     Authority    afarcfstid.     That    wholb- 
cver  {hall  prophanely  Swear  or  Curie,  within    the  hearing  of  any  AiCflant, 
jultia?  of  the  Peace  or  Warden,  or  be  thereof  convicted,  either  by  his  own  -      md 
Ccnfeffion,  or  by  the  Evidence  of  two  Wjtneffes,  upon  Oath  or  Engagemenf, 
beibre  any  one   Affiftanr,  Jufiice  of     the  Peace  or   Warden,  fhall  for  every  Fn-t 
fucli  Oath  or  Cuffe,  be   Fined  Five  Shillings,  to  and  for  the  Uft  of  the  Poof/13"*^'? 
of  luch  Town,  where  the  Offence  fiwll.be  Coroir.itted,  of  be  let  in  the  Stock?,  ^ 
at  the   Drifcretion  ot  fuch  Affiftant,    Juftice  or    Warden,    not    exceeding  o» 
three  Hours. 

PROVIDED  always,  that  «?very  OiTence  agamft  this  Law,  be  complained 
of  within  Ten  D«ys  after  fuch  Offence  Committed. 


]te  >t  jurfbtr    Ea&ltd    by   the   ^/tntbiritj    afore 'fold,     That  no  Perfon 
whatfoever,  Ihall  keep  any  Tavern,  Ale  Houfe  or  Vi&ualliug  Hcufe   nor  Sell  Aror  t    <•* 
any  ftrong  Liquors  of   any  forr    whatibever  by -Retail,   without  a  •  Licenfey/,^ ; -Li'/por* 
firft  had  and  obtained  of  the    Town  Council,  of  fuch  Town  wherein    fuch  ty  Rein  I, 
Perfon  dwells.    And  if  any  Perfon  or  Per/cms,  iliall  preiume  fc  to    do,    and  "Mm*  '-•»"* 
ba  thereof  Lawfully  Convict,  before  any  one  Affifiant,  jultice  of  the  Peace,  f™fe.r  °"fif'f 
or  Warden  of  fa  id  Town,  either  by  his  own  Confeffion,  or   by  the  Evidence  /bv/'&W- 
of  two  Witnefl.es,  upon  Oath  or   Engagement,  fhall  Forfeit  Forty  Sh;lu;:g<}l:n£s. 
for  the  Ufe  of   the    Pco:     oi  fuch   Town,  where     iurh   Offence  ilial- be 
Committed. 

fie  it  further  Enalicci  lj    the  t^l utbcrity  ajorefoteij  That  it  fhalf  and  fyrrer  to  tie 

!en,  to  Pf-eet  to  Con. 
ink  fit,  y»{  &  s™-i 

'   i*ii  ir  j_'  J.  „  /*.  _ 


in  ay  be   Lawful^  for  any   cs;e  AiTiftant,  juftke  of  the  Peace  or  Warden,  to  Pftet  to  tat 
lumraon  and  Convent  before   !iim  any  perfon  or  per  fons,  as  he  ffta!)  flun 


to  give  Evidence  againft  any  fuch  Perftm,   as  fliall  Sell    by  Retail,  any 
Liquor  without  Licence,  and  to  caufe  fuch  perfon    or  perfcns,    to  give  their  h:my^lf 
fblenrn  Engagement  thereto,  and  if  fach  perfbns  refute  the  fame  :,  then  him  ike  fame,  and 
or  them  commit  to  his  Majefties  Goal  iu  Newport,  until  l.e    or  they  purge  '/Z/J9;  rffy<> 
themfelves  by  their  Engagement.  iiiifjtimut 

AUjD  be  it  further  EniSlcd  by  thf  tAutliarity  aforefch^Tliat  it  fnall  find  may  fr^l  rltaS 
be  in  the  Power  of  each  refprct.ive  Town  Council,  to  Grant  Licences  in  their  /""•«  !>>  O.vu 
Refpeftive  Town:,,  f:>r  the  keeping  of  Taverns,  A le-houfes,  and  Victualling^  ^'"'''  _G>";-'-'/* 
houfes  -, they  Granting  no   Licence  under     Forty   Shillings,  nor  none    a^feLiuntt^ 
Ten  Pounds.    And  to  rake  fuch   Bonds  or  RscoemsaneeSj  as  they  ftiall  think 

F  i  " 


Coroii     fortwJi,,     Dedw.o 


&Ujl>mg       meet,  of  all  fuch  Perfbns  as  they  fhall  grant  Licences  to,  for  their  Regular 
Liqiim-:  fy       keeping,  and  maintaining   good  orders  in  the  lame. 

AND  alfo  that  the  refpe&ive  Town  Councils,  (hall  and  hereby  are  Im- 
powerd,  to  take  fuch  Security   of  Stranger?,    coming   to  Inhabit   in  their 
3rtirHC«:»:i/f  refpe<5tive  Towns,  as  to  them  fliaU  leem  neeclfui}to  iecure  theii  Towns  from 
to  take  Krmd   any  charge  thac  may  happen  or  accrue  thereby. 

' 


u.  it  further  Znatted  by  the  Authority  aforefaiJ,Thst  no  Tavern-keeper, 

ftr  (IT.  bji'.L  Ale-  houfe-keeper^c.Chall  fufifer  anylnhabiran:  of  tlieTcwn  wherein  he  dwells,to 

titant  toll'  fit  or  remain  in  their  Houfe,  Tipling  or  Drinking,for  above  the  fpace  of  one 

'"/'!'  H^c  Hour  ata  time,  on  thePenalty  of  payingT^K  Shillings  for  every  fuch  Offence3being 

lam'  at  'I  ^uly   Convi&ed  thereof,  before  any  one   Afliftant,  Juftice  of  the  Peace  or 

time,  a  the.  Warden  of  t'.iid  Town,either  by  his  ownConfeflion,or  by  the  Evidence  of  two 

fin-ilti  of  WitneiTes,  upon  Oath  or  Engagement,  to  be  Recovered,  by  a  Warrant  of 

Tt,i  SrnlHxgs  jDiftrefS3  to  be  granted  by  any  fuch  Affiftant,  Juftice  or  Warden. 

AND  That  no  Towns  -man  fhallfltor  remain  in  any  Tavern,  Ale-  Houfe 
C/*c.  in  the  Town  wherein  he  dwells,  above  the  fpace  of  one  Hour  at  a  timej 
Koperjcnio  and  if  any  Peribn  or  Perfbns,  ihall  prefume  fo  to  do,  contrary  to  this  Ad, 
•f"  "•'  f  Tfi~  And  be  thereof  duly  Ccnvifted,  either  by  his  or  their  own  Confe/Iion,  or  by 
fmtiiaufaf*  '^e  Evidence  of  two  Witneffes  upon  Oath  or  Engagement,  before  any  one 
f.  tiine.  Affiftant,  Juftice  of  tlie  Peace  or  Warden,  fliall  Forfeit  as  a  Fine,  for  every 
Omiieftn.il.  fuch  Offence,  Three  Shillings  and  Four  ptnce,  to  and  for  the  Ule  of  the  Poor 
*r  °^3  f*r'  of  ^uc^  Town,  to  be  Taken  by  a  Warrant  of  Diftrefs  from  any  fuch 
f  Affiftanc,  Juftice  or  Warden. 


A  N  A  C  T  for  Preventing  Clandeftine    Marriages. 


E  it  En&ttcd  by  the  Cjencral  &4$en&ly,  And  I?  the  ^Authority  ef  the  fame, 
j_^  That  no  Perfon  whatfoever,  (hall   Marry  with  any  Female,  tinlefs  he 
firft  procure  Banes  of  Matrimony,    Sign'd  by  an    Alfiftant,   Juftice  of  the 
to  If     Peace  or  Warden,  and  duly  expofe  them,  in  fome  Publick  place  in  the  Town, 


B 


where  the  Perfons  defigning  to  Marry  dwell,  for  the  fpace  of  Ten  Days  after 
their  beins  firft  fet  up  ;  or  be  Publifted  Two  feveral  times,  in  a  Publick 
Affembly  "in   faid  Town  -,  And  that  it  ihal)  and  may  be  Lawful],  for   any 
ji,d  to  foal  Affiftant,  Juftice  of  the  Peace  or  Warden,  to  Intermarry  fuch   Perfons,  as 
**  if"  fa?',     {hall  be  Published  as  afbrefaid. 

AND  upon  Marrying  fuch  Perfons  fo  Publi{hed,theAffiftant,Ju{lice  orWar- 
den  that  Marry  them,  ihall  give  the  Perfonsfo  Married,  a  Certificate  of  the 

t ftme,  (  under  his  Hand  )  who  fliall  carry  the  fame  to  the  Town  Clerk  ol 

a  Ccnifcaie  ^Q  Town  where  fuch  Marriage  lhall  be  Solemniz'd,  And  place  the  lame,  to 
^Avf-rTrf  Record  •,  And  the  Officer  that  Marries  them,  and  give  a  Certificate 
frtfaaFin.  lhall  have  Three  Shillingi  for  the  lame. 

Y  .j  ( 775- 

Five  Pwn.it  1j^3\TfD  be  it  further  "Entitled  by  the  Authority  afarefttiA.,  That  wholb- 
/«  to  !>':,n  over  fM\]  ]y[arry  wich  any  Female  as  aforefaid,  without  duly  proceeding  as 
'Jtem&tl  by'  this  Aa  is  Required,  ftiall  for  fuch  his  Offence,  Forfeit  Five  Tounds,  to  be 
paid  to  and  for  the  Ufe  of  the  Town,  where  luch  Offender  fliall  dwell,  to  be 
ss  Recovered  by  the  Town  Treafurer  of  faid  Town,  in  any  Conrt  of  Record, 

thereof. 

AND 


Anno     T^fgii     Rcgts     Carnli       Sccu;:^^       Dscimo     Sexto. 


ex^T^'D    be  it    further  Entitled  by   the  Authority  aforrfaid,  That  the  Colonies  Cohnits  Seal 

Seal,    (hall   have  Engraven   thereon  an    Anchor.    And    the   Motto  thereof taltt])K-*"- 
-  ttaratKt 


be  the   Word  HOPE. 


An    A#    for  the    Probate  of   Wills,    and    Granting 
of  Adminiftrations. 


BE  it  Erui&tA  by  the  general  A$em\)ly>  and  by  the  Authority  of  the  fame,  Xomt  Cvtmcih 
That  the  Power  of  proving  of  Wills,  and  Granting  of  Adminiflrations  of  to  Prove  Wills 
the  Pertonal  Eftate  of  Peribns  Beceafed,  fliall  be  in  the  refpe&ive  Town  "-^  grant 
Councils  of  this  Colony,  where  fudi  Peribn  Deceafed  laft  Dwelt  or  *** 
Inhabited  :>  which  faid  Town  Council,  or  the  Major  part  of  them,  ihall  have  °n' 
tae  Power  as  Judge  of  Probates,  ro  take  the  Probate  of  Wills  and  'Teftaments, 
and  Grant  Adminiftrations,  and  all  other  matters  relating  thereto,  to  Aft 
and  do,  as  by  the  Laws  of  England,  and  of  His  Majeftjes  Colony  doth 
belong  to  the  faid  Office. 


'Be  it  further  Eth&cd  by  thf  Authority  aforefad,  That  all  Devices 
and  Becuefts  of  Land  or  Tenaments,  or  of  any  Right  or  Intereft  in  the  fame, 
fliall  be  in  Writing,  and  Sign'd  by  the  Party  fo  deviftng  the  fame,  And 
fliall  be  Attefted  and  Subfcribed  in  the  Pretence  of  the  faid  Devifor,  by  three 
or  four  Credible  WitneiTes,  or  elfe  ihall  be  Void  and  of  none  E8e<a.  Writing,  ana 

fliall  have 

AND  be  it  further  ErutBed  by  t\ie  Authority  tforefxid,  That  the  Town  3 
Council  of  each  Town,  may  Summons  and  Convent  before  them,  a!)  and. 
every  Perfon  named  Executor  or  Executors,  of  any  Teftamentv  to  the  intent 
to  prove  or  refufe  the  Teftament  of  his  or  their  Teftator  '5  And  to  bring  in 
Inventories  of  fuch  Teftators  Eftate  •,  And  in  cafe  fuch  Perfon  or  Perfon?, 
take  upon  him  or  them,  the  Executorfhip,  by  proving  the  Will,  that  then  at 
the  fame  time,  fuch  Executor  or  Executors,  fhall  give  Bond  to  the  laid  f  -  ,, 
Town  Council,  that  within  one  Month  after  fuch  Probate,  he  or  they  will 
Exhibit  a  true  and  perfeft  Inventory  upon  Oath,  of  the  whole  Perfon-al 
Eftate  of  the  Deceafed,  as  far  as  IhalJ  come  to  his  or  their  knowledge',  And 
that  he  or  they  will  add  thereunto,  what  and  fo  much  as  may 
afterwards  appear. 


Prefence,  and  by  their  DIreaion  caufe  to  be  made  A  True  and  Perfe&  Invento-  Ef^'^  ** 
ry  of  all  the  Goi>ds  and  Chattels,  Wares,  Merchandizes,   Rights  and  Credit  "cliinft^'to 
of  fjie  Teftator  to  be  Exhibited  to  the  Town  Council,  and  there  Recorded.  Rt&riti 


bs   it   further    Emitted,    That  upon   Probate    of   fuch   Will 
Teftament,  the  WitnefTes  to  the  lame,  ihall  upon   their  Oaths  declare, 
-hey   faw   the  Teftator  Sign,  beal,   and  Declare  the  lame  to  be  his  lait  \ViJi  J 
and  Teftament  •-,  And  that  in  his  Pretence,  they  let  their  Hands  as  Witnelles  td. 
thereunto.      And  the  faid   Teftator  wfe  in  his  Perfeft  Miud  and  Memory, 

G  ac 


14  Aunt     T^t'^ni     2\/£<:*     C?roli     Secvndi^     Decimo     Sexto. 


at  the  fame  time,  which  faid  Teftament  being  fo  proved,  And  the  Clerk  of 
the  faid  Council,  fhali  Tranfcribe  a  Copy  thereof,  into  the  BooJk  of  Record^ 
All(*  'deliver  the  Ons,\nz\  to  fuch  Executor  or  Executors,  with  an  Atteft 
°f  its  being  Recorded.  And  the  faid  Town  Council,  ih'all  without  delay  give 
to  fuch  Executor  or  Executors,  under  the  Seal  of  the  faid  Office,  a  Power 
to  Adroinifter  the  faid  Eftate. 


if  father  Enatled  ty  the  Authority  aforcfaid,  That  in  cafe  the 
If  tfo  'Exeat.  Perfon  'or  Perfons  named  Executor  or  Executors  in  a  Will  (  being  duly 
ton  refufe  to  5  umnioned  ")  before  fuch  Town  Council,  to  prove  the  Will,  foall  refufe  fo 
"ion*'  'jdmi  to  d°,  Anc*  ta'ce  uPon  k'm  L^e  c-iarSe  °f  Executorfhip,  fuch  his  Refufal,  fhall 
*ijhati*tt»  beentredin  the  Regifters  Book  of  faid  Town  Council,  And  thereupon  fuch 
il»e  next  of  Town  Council,  .{hall  Grant  Letters  of  Adminiftradon,  with  the  Will  annexed 
Jt»i,  arty  thereto,  to  the  Widow  or  next  of  kin  to  the  Deceafed  Perfon,  that 
ttf  Jiirw-  ft™^  defire  the  fame  •-,  And  upon  their  refufal,  to  one  or  more  of  the 
Principal  Creditors,  as  the  faid  Council  fhall  think  fit. 


be  it  further  Entitled,  That  when   and  Ib  often^  as  any  Ferfon  {hall 
...  .  .„    .    Dye  Inteftate,  Adminiftration  of  fiich  Inreftates  perfonal  Eftate,ihall  be  Granted 
JInteflait  to  the  Widow,   or  next  of  kin  to  the  Inteftate,  that  fhall  defire  the  fame, 
in  cafe  of  their  refufal  thereunto,  fuch  Principal  Creditor  or  Creditors^ 


fT.r,ite.lto       as  t^ie   fai(i  Jo\vn  Council   fhall  think  fit. 

the  U'il'-.f,  oi 

next  yfkm,          «p5^pjr;£>£<z>  amays,  tArd  be  It  JlriaStA,  That   fuch  Widow  dr  next  of 

kin,  or  Principal    Creditor  or    Creditors    of  fuch   Intefiate,    defiling  die 

Adminiftration  of  fuch  Inteftate  Eftate,  fhall  at   the  Granting  of  the  fame, 

give   Bond  to  the  laid  Town  Council,  with  two  fufficient  Sureties  in  double 

*£%$£     the  Sum  ot   what  the  faid  Imeftates  Perfonal    Eftate,  (hail  be  by  the  faid 

JSon,i.  wd       Town   Council,  Valued  to  be  worth,  for   his  and    their  true  and  rightful 

fe»fa-an  Ac.  Adminiftration  of  the  faid  Eftate   according  to  Law  •,    And  duly  Exhibiting 

ccmptofibeir^  Trug  anj   perfea   inventory  of  fuch  Eftate,  unto  the  faid  Town  Council, 

MniKjlKii-        ^        them  at  nil  times  when  Required,    to  render  a  True  and  Faithful 

l1  ft   IV   IDC  .-•      i  1*  AJ*'/^* 

yb»n.Cww?/,  Account  of  fuch  or  their  AdmiiiiU-ratioa. 


ts  *Be  it  further  Enabled,  That  if  any  Party  ftal!  be  Agrievcd  at  tlie 

ppeal  t3  the  judgement  or  Sentence  of  fuch  Town  Council,  for  any  matters  contained 
owrrww  &•  -      y         »    ^  Jn  fuch  Cafe  Jt  ^]{  bs  Lawful  for  fuch  Perfon,  to  Appeal 

.%  ITI  /t  1  --,  \     r*  A.i          f 

from  the  faid  Judgement  or  sentence,  unto  tiie  Govefnour  rmd  Council  of 
of  Tro-  this  Colony,  who  as  the  Supream  Ordinary  or  Judge  of  Probates,  are 
hereby  Impowered,  to  hear  and  determine  fuch  Appeals,  and  ro  give  fuch 
Judgment  thereupon,  as  to  them  {hall  appear  right  and  agreeable  with 
Law. 

PROVIDED  always  that  fuch  Perfon  or    Feribns  cefiring  an  Appeal  as 
aforefaid,  give  fecurity  by  Bond,  to  faid  Town  Council,  to  Prolecute  fuch 
tt      Appeal   with  Elfeft,   and  to  Pay   fuch  Coftss    as  may    be   Taxed    agaihft 
£lt'Ea"d'       him  or   then). 


be  it   further  Eaatted  by  the  *4utkority    jforcfuid,    That    ir 
Perfon  ihall  Marry  with  any  Executrix,  or  Adminiftratrix,  fuch  perfon  upon 


lie  fiiitMtr.  Intormation  given  thereof  by  any  Creditor,  Legatee  or  other  perfon  Interested 
'atca'tirix*  or '»   f"uch  Eftate,   to  the   Town  Council,  before  whom  the  Will  was  proved, 

1  1  Al * .     *  rt  ._ —  *-* _     f~~*    .  —  —1         f\-  .11      1-  -.          /~\L  T  ! .  -  _   3       1_  _-       f. ,  —X.       'T  r-. 


t  a  give 
' 


Anno     Reffni  Regi<     Caroli     Stcundi,       Decimo     Octavo. 


Ailminiftration,  ot  the  Eftate  ot  the  Teftator  or  Inteftate ;  And  in  cafe  of  &/>«»  rfnfa 
Refufal,  any  ore  or  more  of  the  Juftices  of  the  Peace  or  Wardens, tol>e  *•>*"»» 
belonging  to  iiich  Town  Council,  lhall  Commit  iuch  Perfon  to  his  Majefties te*  "  Goai' 
Goal  In  Tfowjwr,  there  to  reuiain  until  he  {hall  have  perfotned  the  lame. 


^^v^  be  it  further  Enatted,  That  upon  fuch  perfons  giving  Bond  with 
Sureties  as  aforefaid,  all  former  Bonds  given  by  fuch  Executrix  or  Adraini- 
itiatrix,  {hall  be  delivered  up  to  be  Cancel'd. 

LAWS 

Made  and  Paft  by  the  General  Aflembly  of  His  Majefties  Cofony 
of  Rhode-Ijlautl,  and  Providence-Plantations,  Begun  and  Held  at 
Newport,  the  firfl  day  of  May,  in  the  Eighteenth  Year  of  His 
Majeflies  Reign  Anno^ue  Domini.  1666. 


AN  ACT,  Eftablifhing,  Settling  and  Regulating,  the  General 
Courts  of  Tryals,  within  this  Colony,  in  both  Civil  and 
Criminal  Cauies. 


WJFIE'RJ-e^S  ly  Hl-s  ^Xfajcstiet  most  Gracious  Charter,  granted  tottif  His 
IMajitties  Colony,  full  Waiver  and  csfutberity  it  (jiven  to  the  General 
^/ifftmlly  thereof.,  te  dppoint,  Order  ttnd  Dirdt,  ErtS  and  Settle,  fuck  Court  of 
yudiacature,  is  fozit  be  necejfary  for  the  Trjal  and  Determination  of  all  Aftiomt 
Canfet,  t,5Wa!ten,  and  ihtngt^  hAfpcnivg  toithin  the  fomt  ;  And  t  o  .  3{egu!<*t  e  the 
froceedingt  thereon. 

BE  it  EnxEtcd  fejr  t\>i  {jentrd  t/fflemblj,  and  fcy  tie  ^Authority  of  the  fame, 
That  there  fiiall  be  two  General  Courts  ot  "Tryals,  and  General  Goal  ^  Tim; 
delivery,  Aanuallv  Held  .it  Newport,  for  the  Tryai  of  all  Cauies,  Matters  ^  Cow" 
and  Things  both  Civil  and  Criminal  ,  The  one  General  Court  of  Tryals  ';n?lf 
and  Goal  Delivery,  to  be  Held  the  laft  Tucfday  of  March  Annually,  and 
the  other  on  the  firft  Tutfday  of  September  ;  which  iaid  Courts,  ftall  be 
cornpofed,  and  confift  of  the  Governour,  and  Deputy  Governour,  and 
Afliftants  of  this  Colony,  of  which  the  Governou*-,  or  in  his  ablence,  the 
Deputy  Governour  and  three  Afliftants,  to  be  a  Quorum  ;  And  in  cafe  of  the 
Abfence  of  both  the  Governour,  and  Deputy  Governour,  then  any  rive  of  the 
Afiiftants,  to  be  a  Quorum,  who  (hall  have  Cognizance  of  all  Pleas  Real  and 
Perfonal  and  Mixt,  as  alfo  Pleas  of  the  Crown,  and  Caufes  Criminal,  and 
Matters  relating  to  the  Conlervation  of  the  Peace,  and  Puailhment  of 
Offenders,  and  generally  of  all  other  Matters,  as  fully  aad  amply,  to  all 
Intents  and  Purpofes  whatfcever  \  As  the  Courts  of  Common  Pleas,  Kings 
Bench,  or  Exchequer,  in  his  Majefties  Kingdom  of  England,  Have  or  ought 
to  Have-,  And  are  hereby  Impowrcd  to  give  Judgment  therein,  and  Award 
Execution  thereupon,  and  make  fuch  neceifiiry  Rutea  of  Pra&ice,  as  the 
Judges  of  the  iaid  Court,  ihail  from  time  to  drae  lot  axdfui. 

G  i  Provided 


f^4nno 


Regis      Caroli     Shundi,     Decimo     Octavo. 


PROVIDED    the    faid    Pvules  be    not  Contrary  and  Repugnant  to  the 
known   Laws  of  this  Colony- 


tj.men. 


he   it  further  Enatted  by  tht  Authority  aforefaid,  That  the  Record- 
o         ot  this  Colony  for  the   time   being,  {hall  be  Clerk  of  the  laid  General 
'faid  '  Court.  Courts  of  Tryals,  and  General  Goal  Delivery.    And  that  all  Writs,  Procefs 
'  .-mil  Executions  for  Matters  Cognizable  by,  or  Iffuing  out  of  the  laid  Courts 
fliall  be  SignM  or  Sealed  by  him,  (  as  need  fhall  require,  )  who  during  the 
fitting  of  the  faid  Courts,  to  make  due  Enrries  of  the    Proceedings  there 
of,    and  {hall    be  Paid  Ttw  Shiilings  per  Diem,  out  of  the  General  Treafury, 
for  his  attendance  therein. 

AND  be  It  further  Enaftcd-by  the  ^4utnarity   aforefaid,  That  the   Town  of 
omi     Newport,  Ihall  fend  to  each  Refpeaive  General  Court  oiTryals,  and  General 
of  Jit.  Qoaj  Delivery,  Five  Grand  Jury-  men,  and  Five  Petit  jury-men  •   the  Town 
^  'ftrtf  mouth.  Three  Grand,   and   Three  Petit   Jury-men  ',    the  Towns  of 
ffrovidcnte  and  Warwick,  two  Grand,  and    two  Petit  Jury-men   each,  to  be 
Chofen    by  each  Refpeftive,  at  their  Town  Meeting,  next  yreceeding  fuch 
General  Court  of  Trya's,  e^c.  to  the  which  they  Ihall  be  Chofen. 

t^CND  be  it  futhtr  Enatted  by  the  Authority  aforefaid,  Tliat  every  Grand 
Jury-man,  and  Petit,  chofen  as  aforefaid,  before  his  Ading  as  fuchj  fhal]  t^ke 
each  his  Refpe&ive  Engagement  following. 

ta  vt  Engaged, 

WHEREAS  Tou    ^.     B.     are  Cbi/fea  on  the  fyancl  InsptR^  W  the 
of  Our  Sovereign  Lord  the  Kirg,  Ton  do  here  'fremife  ami  Engage,  to  make 
true  T^jtiffn  to  this  Court,  of  arl  fuch  Bills,  as  fall  be  prtftnted  to  Tou,    or  fu 
brerifs  of  Law,  us  fiall  come  to  your  Kniwltage.  And  this  Engagement  Tou  tnttkt 
and  give  upon  the  ?r.-il   of  the  'Penalty  of    'Perjury. 

YOV    A.     B.     being  of  this  Jury  of  Tryals,  Ton  Jhall  weS  and  truly  trj   tht 
Jffue  of  this.  Cafe,  and  all   Cafes    that  flail  be  Committed  •unto  Ten  from  thif 
Court  between  the  Parties,  Plantijf  and  'Defentlant,  accordirg  to  Law  and  f-videnct  \ 
jind  to   keep    together,  until  Ton  agree  of  a    ferdift  in  the  Cafe  or  Cafes  Committed 
f0  jw^  and  make  true  "Rjturn  of  the  Vtr&Sk  or  J^frdiEls^    unto  this  Court,  and  to 
y°ur  Orpn  ane*  Ffl"lows  Sfcrets  >  -dvd  *his  Engagement  Tat  Make  and  Give,  upon 
Peril  of  the  Penalty  of  Per  jury. 


a 

fuch 


Engagement 
°'       1* 


jvrv 

" 


ojL-e 


YO 
tr 
tpfifaer 


OV    A-     B.      be  ing  of  this  Jury  of  Tryalf,  lou  fliall  roell  ana.  truly  Try,   and. 
true  JSelivettrnce   make,    Btt&een  Our  Sovereign  Lord  the    King,    and    ;ht 


at  t\jt  %Ar^  according  to  Law  and  Evidence,  and  the  Light  o 
Confcience  ufon  the  Evidence  ,  And  to  keep  togtther,  -until  you  are  agreed  of  a 
Vcrditk  or  ferdifts,  in  the  Caff  or  Cafes,  that  fljall  be  Committed  to  y»u  from  thi* 
Court  ;  And  to  keep  your  Own  and  Fellows  Secrets.  And  this  Engagement 
and  Give  upon  the  Peril  of  the  Penalty  oj  Terjurj. 


Be  it  further  Enatted  by  the  Authority  aforefaid,  That  no  General 
Officer  of  this  Government,  during  his  continuance  as  fuch,flvill  be  Arrefted 
or  Attached,  either  in  Body  or  Goods  in  any  Aftional  Caie  ;  And  that  in  all 
Aaual  Cafes,  that  any  Perfon  may  have  againft  a  Gener?,'  Officer,  it  fliall  be 
b/  Summons  and  no  otherwife  -,  And  that  all  Writs  of  Arrcft  or  Attachment, 
that  ihall  be  Granted  forth  contrary  hereunto,  ihall  be  null  and  Void  in  Lawi 
dfes  And  the  Defendant  ihall  have  his  Cofts  and  Damages  Accruing  thereon. 

And 


jtnno     Rwrii   Segis     Qiroli     Stcunai,       Decimo 


\>t  it  father   F.n<ffied  by  tit  Authority   aforffaid,  That  all  Wrirts 
of  Arr«ftand  Summon?;,  That  are  taken  out  of  die  Recorders  Office,  and  duly 
lerved  Forty  Days  betore  the  Court,  to  the  which  they  are   Dire&ed  by  the  **?***  *°  ie 
Sheriff  or  his  Deputy.     And  a  Declaration  be  Entred  in  the  Recorders  Office,  '^jf^  an 
Twenty  Four  Days  before  the  Courc  by  the  PlantifF,  then  the  Defendant  D^estcfotc 
fliall  put  in  his  Ani'wer  thereto  in  the  Recorders  Office,  Eight  Days  before  '•'"•  Cow*. 
the  Court  ;  otherways  the   Plantiff  may  enter  al^ihit  'Dicit,  and  Judgement  ^"^ratianm 
fhnli    pafs  a^ainft  the   Defendant  for  want   of  an    Anfwer,   &c.     And    all  /,  jj'vej  £*"" 
Writts  and  Summon1:;,  rha:  Jhall  be  taken    out   of  the    Recorders    Office,  yW  the  Court, 
within  Forty  Days  betore  any  General  Court  of   Tryals,  fliall  be  Directed  to  ""<*  anfver 
the  next  General  Court  ot  Tryals,  fucceeding  fuch  Court  as  aforefaid.  Ei&7it* 

AND  fa  it  fur  thcr   E>n  tied  by  the  Authority  aforefaid,   That   if  the   Record 
er  for  the  Time  being  fhall^be  ablent  at  any  time  from  any  Court  or  Court*f*tT'e  "*}""* 
of  judicature,  (  either  by  Sicknefs  or  other  Occafions  )  where  he   is  Ordered  ^/  ^Cwn 
and  Appointed  TO  attend  ;  That  then  and  in  fuch  cafes  it  fhall  and   may   be»»  Jfportaa 
lawful  for  the   judges  of     fach  Court,    to     Appoint    another    Perfon,   to  Ie  >f™to  O/- 
Officiate  in  the  Room  and  Stead  of  the  Recorder,  during  his  ablence.  ^'ate  in  ^ 


"He  it  further    Enatttd   by  the    esfiithoritjf    aforefaid,     That     in     all//,  fay  tlx 
Civil  Aelions,  the  Plantiff  or  his  Attorney  fhall  Pay  the>  Jury. 


AND  be  it  furtktr  En.'.clrd  by  the  Authority  aforefaid,  That  the  Sheriff  •$&«••/  to  at, 
and  his  Deputy,  in  the  Town  where  fuch  Courts  flia  11  be  Held,  Jh<U!  Attend'e"^//Jf  Ge* 
aH  General  Courts  of  ATemblv,  anJ  General  Courts  ot  Tryals,  aad  Giw*' 
General  Goal  Delivery,  during  the  fitting  of  fuch  Courts. 

AN    ACT    for   the   Calling    of  Special    Courts. 


WHERE /iS  it  many  times  happens,  that  Merchants,  Seafaring- toen,  und  other 
tranfiem  Ptrfons  not  being  fettled  Inhabitants  in  this  Colony,  and  coming  here 
to  Trade  and  Negotiate  their  affair j,  are  much  'Damnified  therein,  upon  their  Suing 
or  bting  Sued  in  &4£tiont  Tsrfontd,  by  reafon  of  their  long  attendance,  until  the 
"Ufual  Courts  of  Tryals  in  this  Colony  to  Determine  fuck  controverftes,  and  rvbich  art- 
many  times  occasioned  through  Malice  eftht  ether  Party,  to  hinder  theat  from  proceed 
ing  an  their  foyjges,  or  othtrwaji. 


For  the  Preventing  thereof,   and  to  the  end  that  Juftice 
be  fpeedHy  done, 

BEit  EnaElcd  by  the  general  Aflemttf  of  this  Colnny,  and   by  the  Authority  of 
the  fame,  That  from  this  time  and  henceforth,  upon  the  Pen'rion  of  ?.ny 
Merchants,  Seafaring  Men  or  other  Tranfient  Perfons  (  not  being  fettled 
Inhabitants  of  this  Colony,  Praying  a  fpecial  Court  to  be  called,  to'trv    any  Tm  **™l" 
Perfonal  Action  or  Aftions,  that  he    hath  or   wants  to  O-mmence  agninfr  £*"  Co--','' 
any  other   Perfon,   or  to  defend  fuch  Aftion   Commenced  againft  him  -,  ItvourtoCeA 
shall  be  in  the  Power  of  the  Governour,  and  in  his  Abfence'of  rheDepucy  ' 
Governour,  to  Grant  forth  a  Warrant  to  the  Sheriff  of  this  Colony,  or  m  his 
Ablense  to  his  lawful  Deputy,  for  the  Impannelling  a  Jury  of  Twelve  Men, 

H  Qualified 


Caroli     Stcttndi, 


Qualified  according  to  Law,  to  meet   together    at  Juch   time   and  place,  as 

fhall  be  Appointed  in   the  faid  Warrant,  for  the  Tryal  of"  fuch  Matters  as 

A?;  v/^'iH*^,  ^M  be  brou.-'ht  before  the  laid  Court,  which  faki  Court,  fhall  confift  of  the 

ti'sl  Courts.  *  Governour,  and   in    his  Abfence,  of  the  Deputy  Governour,  and  Three  or 

more  Affiftanrs  of  this  Colony,  (  whereof  one  to  be  an  Inhabitant  in  one  of 

the  other  Towns    within  this     Colony,    then  that  in   which  fuch    Court 

flwll  beheld,  )  which  fe»d  Court  fhall  be  Appointed  to  be  held,  within  Ten 

Days  after. the  Date  of  laid  Warrant. 


Be  it  further  Enabled  by  the  Authority  aforef'aid.  That  upon  Tryftl 
of  fuch  Caufe  or  Caufes  afbrefaid  at  laid  Court,  the  Verdict,  and  Judgement 
ftiMjnigwa*  thereupon  given,  (hall  be  final  and  Definitive,  without  any  Appeal  to  any 
f,ne  totlie  other  Court,  laving  only  to  the  Party  agrieved,  the  Liberty  of  Appealing  to 
KtngiHCvat.  HisMajefty  in  Council  in  England^  as  in  other  cafes  is  ufually  allowed. 

AJfJD  bt  it  further  EnaSed  by  the  Authority    tforefaid,  That  fuch   Peribn 

or  Perfons,  Praying  for   a  fpecial    Court,  fhall  be  at  the  charge  thereof,  and 

tepaiike'-ote  hctore  Granting  of  .the  fame,  fhall  Pay  dowr»  to  the  Governour,  or  in  his 

tie  Grwnng   Abfence  to  the  Deputy  Governour  Five  Pounds,  towards  bearing  the  Expences 

of «.  Special     of  faid  Court ;  which  faid  Five  Tnndjm  cafe  Judgement  is  rendred  for  him, 

Coun>  (hall  be  allowed  in  the  Bill  of  cofts,  to  be  Taxed  in  laid  Court,  and  the 

General  Recorder  fhall  be  the  Clerk  of  luch   Court. 


AN  ACT  for  the  Protedion  of  die  Members  oF  the  General 
Aflembly,  and  of  Perfons  CUolcii  on  Juries  from  being  Anefted 
or  Sued,  during  Service. 

ORASMUCH  *t  the  Publick  Service    of  His  M*jtfty,  *nd  tint  <jovernmt»ft 

ought  -ta  be  Preferred  he  fore  Trivate  Intercfts,  and  that  M  Perfan  bt  diftou- 

mgtd   frwi  ftrving    the  Publicit,  as  Members  of  tht    (jtrurd    */ffl*mblj  tf  t&t 

Colwy,  vr  Jurert  upon  Tryuls  and 


BE  it  therefore  Enattcd  by  the  fyntrtl  Affcmhly,  and  by  the  eslitthtritj  of  rka 
fam«t    That  all  and  every  Peribn  and  Perfons,  and  the  Eftates  of  fuch 
Ex.  Perfons,  as  fliall  be  Chofen  to  ferve  as  Members  of  the  General   Aflembly  of 
tnis^°'ony>  *or  any  Town  in  the  (aid   Colony,  fh^l  I  be  Free  and  Exempt 
from  all  Summons,  Arrefts,  Attachments  and  Executions   whatfoever,  at  the 
Suit  of  any  private  Perfon,  to  anfwer  any  Debtor  Damages,  Due  orpretend- 
Mefi  fyfpe-  e<±  lo  -Dfc  j^ug  to  fm-h  private  Perfon,  from  the  Time  he  is  fo  Chofen,    until  he 
°e  D'inl|ft  ftom  ^ucn  his  Station  and  Employ,  without  the  fpecial  Leave  and 
Permi/Iion  of  the  faid  Affembly,  firft  had  and  Obtained. 

AND  be  it  further  Ettttted,  That  all  Perfons  whofoever,  that  fhall  here- 
after  be  Lawfully  Chofen,  to  ferve  on  any  Grand  Jury,  Petit  Jury,  or  Jury 
of  Inqueft  in  this  Colony,  they  and  their  Eftates  fhall  like  wife  be  Free,  and 
&c.  Exempt  from  aH  Summons,  Arrefts,  Attachments  and  Executions,  in  the 
fame  manner  as  tne  Members  of  the  General  Affembly  are,  from  the  time  of 
their  being  Chofen,  to  ferve  in  fuch  Place  or  Station,  until  they  be  Legally 
Difcharged  or  Diimift  from  the  fame,  and  *  reafonable  Time  for  their  return 
to  their  Habitations  again.  And 


Anno     "Z^gni     Ktglt     Carol!      Secutidi,       Decimo     O&avo,  .  « 


be  h  further  Enacted  \>j  the  tdutbority  ttforefaiJ,  That  all   and  ^.^,r 
Summons,  Writ,  Executions,  or  other  Procefs,  which  ftia  11  or  may   be  ferVed  .«/«/•• 
upon  any  oPfhe  Perfons  aforettrd  contrary  to  this  A &,  ihall  bp  Null  and    Void  .C,™  fj''&d 
iu-<d  of  none  Effed  5n  the  Law  whatfoever  ',  and  thar  any  Officer   thar  fhal!  gtaatJ  eon, 
Icnowiligly  Grant,  Execute  or  Serve,  any  fuch  Writ,  Snmmons,  Execution   or  "'•"•*  *«""/ 
other  Procels,  whereby  the  Per  fbn  or  Eftate,  of  any   Perfbn  ihall  be   contrary  '}  H^'"  f 
to  this  A«a  Arrefted,  Imprifoned,  Attached  or  Seized}  fuch  Officer  upon    Com-  ^."otix, 
plaint  of  Perfons  damnified,  or  mplefted  or  damnified  thereby,  c«  the  General  twfoyfitt 
Afferably  or  General  Court  of  Trials,  of  this  Colony,  Ihall  be  liable  to  be  Fined  fuutt"- 
according  to  the  Difcreti^n  of  either  of  the  laid  CourtSjnoc  Exceeding  the  Sum 
ot  Ftve  Psundt,  to  be  Levied    on  fuch  Offenders  Goods  and  Chatties,  by  a 
Warrant  or  Order  from  faid  Court  to  whom  fuch  Complaint  fliall   be  made. 

AN  ACT  for  the  EiUblifhing  and  Reguiarijag  of  Fees. 

A  ND  be  it  Enafted  by  the  General  AffemUy  of  this  Calcny,  and  J>y  the  Attthof-M 
•"•  tftbt  fame,  That  the  Eftablifliment,  ofine  Fee?  of  the  feveral  Office,  .4 
th«  Colony  hereafter  mentioned,  fhall  be  at  folioweth. 

Fees       for       Probate      of      Wills,    .$fe 

FOR    tf>e  Probate  of  Wills  where  the    Inventory  exceeds  i     L      s.     el- 
not   One    Huadrei    Pou;vk,    Si*  SbiUinp.  j     OO    06    oo 

For  every  Hundred  Pounds   above  one  Hundred  Pounds,     1 
Two  Shilling!  to  the  Town  Council. 


For  Probate  of  Inventory,  where  no   Will    appears  and  when  \ 

the  Inventory  exceeds  not  one  Hundred  Pounds.  Six  Shilling     jod    06   OO 
If  Above,  for  every  Hundred  Pounds  more,  > 

Two  Ski/lings   to  (he  Town  Council.  f 

Clerks       Fees. 


R    Entering  A  Civeat  t^I-ift  the    Probate  of  a  WH1,    V 
or    Granting  of    Adminiftration.  J     oo    ot    ocl 

For  taking  Bond  and  Granting  Adminiftration        V 

under  the  Seal  of  th«  Town    Council.  J  oo    04    oo 

For  Regifrring  a  Will  or  Inventory,  not  exceeding  one  Page.  oo  01  06 
If  above  one  Pdge,  for  every  Page  Twenty  five  line*  hi  a  Page,  oo  oi  oo 
For  a  Copy  of  Ditto  from  the  Record,  if  not  above  one  Page  oo  oi  06 
If  -above  one  Page,  for  every  Page  Twenty-fiv<j  lines  in  a  Page.  oo  oi  oo 
't  >T  every  Citation  and  Summons,  oo  oo  oo" 

For  Bond  and  Granting  Licence  under  the  Town  Council  Stfal.  oo    05    oo 

For  Bond  of  every  Per&n  'that  come*  to  dwell  in  the  Town,  oo  oi  CO 
To  the  Town  Sergeant  or  Conftable,  for  Serving,  every  Summons  \ 

or  Citation  if  not   above  a   mile   from   hortle.  j    oo    Oi    oo 

If    above   one    Mile    from    home,    fot    tvery     Mile     Three-pence. 

Ani  the  Town  Clerk  IhiH  have  and  take  the  fame  Fees,  as  the 
Clerk  of  the  Counca  for  Recording  of  Inftrunaents»  and  Granting 
copies  of  the  fame.  H  2  Re- 


2O  tx/»«9      Rcgni     tiegls      Caroii     Sccundi,     Dccimo     O&avo. 


Recorders   Fees. 

FOR  Attending  the  General  Aficmbly,     the  General    Courts 
of    Trvals,    General     Goal   Delivery,    and    fpedal     Courts, 

Two  Shillings  per     Diem  out  of  the  Genera!  Treafury.  7.  s.  d. 

For  fixing  the   Colony  Seal.  oo  02  06 

For    ev-sry     Coatmifiion.  000500 

For    a    Writ    or      Summons.  oo  oi  04. 

For    riling    a   Declaration.  oo  or  oo 

For  a  copy  of  Ditto  not  exceeding    one  Page.  oo  oi  06 

If  above  onft  Page,  for  every  Page  Twenty-five  lines  in  a  Page.  oo  oi  oo 

For  filing  of  an   Anfwer  oo  01  oo 

For  copy  of  Ditto  not  exceeding  one    Pag?.  oo  oi  06 

If  a^ove  one  Page,  for  every  P.ige  Twenty-Eve    lines  in  a  Page.  oo  oi  oo 

To  t    :y  Aftioti  called    in    Court,  oo  oi  oo 

For  copy  of  Record  not  exceeding   one   Page  oo  oi  06 

If  above  one  Page,  for  every  Page  Twenty. five  lines  in  a  Page,  oo  oi  oo 

For  a  copy    of  every    Deposition.  oo  oi  oo 

For   entering  a  Nihil    Dicit.  oo  oi  oo 

For    a    Scire    Facias.  oo  ot  04 

For    Entring    Verdiclv  oo  oi  oo 

For  Recording    Judgement  and  IfTue  oo  oi  08 

For  a  Writ    of  Execution.  oo  02  06 

For      a    Diftringus.  oo  or  oo 

For  Acquital   of  Felony  cr    Sufpicion  thereof.  oo  oi  of? 

For    Entering    a  Rute    of  Court.  oo  oi  oSi 

For    Bond  in  the   Recorders    Offiice.  od  02  oo 

for   Entering  Traverfe  npon   Indictment,  oo  or  oo 

for    filing  an  Inventory   of  Goods  taken  by    Execution;'  oo  oi  oo 

For     a     Writ     of     Accompt.  co  o'l  08 

For    Entering  an  order  of  Court  for  Reference  to  Auditors,  oo  ot  08 

For  every    Perfon  Summoned.  06  oo  04 

For  a  Writ  of  Error.  oo  03  oo 

For  a  Writ  of  Attaint.  ^o  °3  oo 

For  filing  every  Return   ?n  Court.  oo  oo  08 

For   Entering  a   Proteft  in   Court.  oo  o>  oo 

For  every  Evidence  Read  in  Court.  oo  oo  04 

For  Withdrawing    an  Action.  oo  or  oo 

For -the  Difcharfce  oi  any  -?dbn  upon   Bail  to  the  Peace,  Or.  oo  oi  oo 

Sheriffs    Fees. 

/       f  d 

FOR   Serving  a  Writ  if  net.  3l;ove  :,   Mile   from  home.  oo  oi  cs 
If  above  one  Mile  Two-pence  per  Mil*  forward  &  backward. 

For  Attending  a  Prifoner  before  Imprifon'd  psr    Diem.  oo  02  c6 

For  copy  of    Writ.  oc  oi  oo 

for   Attending    of  the  Court  per  Diem  out  nf  the  General  Treafury.  OO  02  oo 

For  Attendance  on  every  A#ion,  oo  oi  oo 

For   difcharge  of  every  Perfon  upon  Bail  t>  the  Peace,  &c.-  oo  oi  oo 

For  every  Evidence  Read  in    Court.  oo  oo  04 

For    Bail    Bond    in    Aftional     cafes.  oo  02  oo 

For   Bond  to  the  Peace  or  Good   Behaveiour.'  oo  04  ort 
For  ferving  Execut:on  if  nbt  exceeding  Ten   Pounds,  one  7 

Shilling     and    Six-pence   per    Pound- 
*If  ibove    Ten   founds  and     not   exceeding    Fifty    ~l 
Pounds,  Twelve-Pence     per    Pound.  / 

If  above  Fifty   Founds,  and  not  exceeding  one 
Hxndrtd  Pounds,    Nim-pcnce    per    Pound. 


Anno     Kegni  Regis     Caroli     Sccanai,       Decimo     Oftavo-  21 

If  .-vbove  onw  Hundred  Pounds,  r.nd  not  exceeding    two         *> 

Hundred    Pounds^    Six~pcnce     pir     Pound.  j 

If  above  two   Hundred  Pounds,  and    not  exceeding     three   1 

Hundred   Pounds,   Four-pence  per   Pound.  J 

For    all    Executions   above    three    Hundred     •) 

Poundi,  Two-pence   per    Pound.  j 

For  all   Ex;cutions  Served  out  of  the  Town  where    the    Sheriff    V 

Lives    Two-pence   per    Mile    forward  -and     backward.  ?* 

For    turning    the    Key    on  every    Prifoner   Commited.  oo    o$    04 

For    Difchargs    of  every    Perfon    upon    Bail     to  the  King.  oo    01     oo 

Attorney    General's    Fees. 

/     s     d 

FOR  every  Bill  of  Indiftment  Drawn   and  Plea  upon  Traverfe.  oo  13  04 
For  every  Ditto  Drawn    and   Pafs'd    the  Court     ") 

if   not    found    by    the  Grand    Jury.                   j                 oo  03  oo 

For     everv    Criminal    Executed    to    Death.                              Of  oo  oo 

For    Difchar&e    of  every    Perfon     upon    Bor       to    the    Peace.         oo  02  oo 

For    every    Diys    Attendance   on  the  Court.                                      oo  03  oo 

Other     Fees      Allowed    in    Court. 

/  y  d 

FOR   Entering  every    Aftion,    to    the    Judges.                         oo  05  oo 

For    Attorney's    and    Council's    Fees.                                      oo  12  oo 

For    Drawing     Bill   of  Cofts.                                                   oo  01  oo 

For    Taxing    Ditto.                                                                       oo  01  oo 

For   every    Cafe    Tryed  ;  to     the    Jury.                                            oo  12  oo 

For  every  Perfons  Difcturged,  up™  Bui  to  the  King,  to  the  Sergeant,  oo  or  oo 

For   every    Evidence   attending    ths    Court    per    Ditm.                    oo  01  06 

For     every      Action     called,      to    the    Sergeant.                               oo  01  oo 

For    every     D-iys     Attendance     by    the     Sergeant.                          oo  03  oo 


An    A&  for  Regulating  die  Proceedings   on  Executions, 
and  Diflraints    on   Goods  and   Chattels. 


BE  it  Ennct(d  'ay  the  (jineral  Affembly,  and  \>j  the  Authority  of  the 
That  in  all  civil  Cafes,  where  Execution  fhall  be  Levied  on  any  Perfons 
Goods  or  Chattels,  the  Goods  and  Chatties  lb  Executed  upon,  ihall  be  kept  QOO(,, 
in  the  Officers  Hands  Ten  Days,  before  they  fliall  be  Offered  or  Expofed  to^  Z>'/x;/; 
Sale,  Co  that  the  Perfon  that  Owned  fuch  Goods  or  Chatties,  fo  taken  be  kcP'  *•* 
by  Execution,  may  within  the  faid  time  (  if  he  think  fit  )  Pay  the  Money  i&l£%n 
due,  together  with  the  charges  accruing  on  fuch  Execution,  and  thereupon^  '° 
(hall  have  his  faid,  Goods  delivered  to  him  again. 


tsfND  'Be  \t  further    Enattcd  by    the  Authority  aforefaid.  That  in  Cafe  any 
Officer  for  Rates,  or   other  juftifiable  Caufe,    mall   Diftrain  the   Goods     or , 
Chattels  of  any  Perfon  -,  that  then  and  in   fuch  Cafe,  the  faid  Officer  /hall  < 
keep  the  faid  Goods  and  Chatties,  for  the  fpaceof  Ten  Days,  at  the  Charge' 
of  the  Owner  of  (aid  Goods  and  Chattle?,  who   within  the  laid  Ten  Days, 
Paying  the  Money  due,  and  the  Charges  accruing    thereon,  Jhall   have   the 
fame  Delivered  him  again  •,  But  in  Cafe   the  Owner  fhall  not  Redeem  them 
as  iiforefaid?  th;n  then  rhe  Olficer  may  Sell  the  fame  by  Publick  Vendue-  or 

1  Outcry 


Amio 


T{rg:s     Carol  i     Secundi,     Decimo     Octavo. 


Finet  to 


Outcry,    and   what  overplus  fhall  remain,  after  the   Debt  and  Charges  art 
facisfied  and  Paid,  (hail  bt?  rctruned  to  the  Owner  thereof. 

JlND  be  it  further  Enjfted  by  the  Authority  aforefaid  That  all  Fines 
id  Forfeitures,  fliall  be  Levied  by  the  Sheriff  or  his  Deputy,  by  Order  of  the 
'CtMral  Ties-  General  Aflembly,  General  Court  of  Tryals,  and  General  Goal  Delivery  ; 
ty'-fy  ilie  fl»all  be  by  him  (  as  by  Law  is  required  )  Paid  into  the  General  Treafury,  to 
Five  Pounds  and  for  the  Ufe  of  the  Colony.  And  if  the  Sheitf  fhall  refufe  or  neglect  to 
for  every  Pay  the  fame  as  aforefaid,  by  the  fpace  of  one  Month,  he  fhall  Forfeit 
Month  ncg-  for  fuch  Olfence,  Fivt  ^ounds^  tu  and  for  the  ufe  of  the  Colony ,to  be  rcover- 
le^'  ed  by  the  Generul  Treafurer  for  the  time  being,  in  any  Court  of  Record. 


Fines  to  le 
f.iiJ  ''ity  t!\: 
Town-  TVeu/ii. 
ry,  by  tl:e 
Caiijt.tlle,  &c 
wtth:n  tne 
Month t  tin. 
after  Ltvied, 
en  the  faul 
ty  of  free 
Sfi'sllingt  per 
Jttantb 


AND  that  al)  Conftables,  and  other  Officers  of  the  Refpe&ive  Towns 
within  thti  Colony ,who  ar«  legally  Authorized  and  Appointed  toColleft  and 
Gather  any  Fines  or  Forfeitures,  which  of  Right  ought  to  be  Paid  into  the 
Town  Treafury.  And  fhall  after  the  Levying  and  Collecting  of  the  fame, 
Negleft  or  Refufe  fb  to  do,  by  the  fpace  of  one  Month,  he  fliall  for  every 
Month  after  the  Expiration  of  the  aforefaid  time,  Forfeit  Five  Shillings,  to 
and  for  the  Uftr  of  fuch  Town,  to  be  Recovered  by  Complaint  or  Infor 
mation,  before  any  one  or  more  Affiftants,  Juftices  of  the  Peace 
or  Wardens,  of  fuch  Town. 


An    Ad:    foe     the    due     Recording,     Preferring     and  Keep 
ing  the  A&s  of  the  General  Aflembly  of  this  Colony. 


'l'ljeaKe-Cotr" 
lie  A/iof 
jiffemUy,  .and 
fendCoput  10 

tte  Tenali'  oT 
Five  Pounds 

for  every  ,(>/. 
feme, 


E  it  Emitted  by  the  General  AJfcraklv,  And  by  the  Authority  of  the. 
That  the  General  Recorder  of  the  Colony  for  the  time  being,  {hall  Re  - 
corci  a11  ^  A<*s  °*  C^e  General  Aflemblies  of  this  Colony  in  a  Book,and  fend 
forth  true  Copies  of  the  fame,  to  the  feveral  Towns  in  the  Colony,  with  the 
Colonies  Seal  affixed  thereunto,  by  the  ieveral  tiroes,  as  by  the  General 
AlTembiies  (hall  from  time  to  time  be  Ordered  }  on  the  Penalty  of  five  'Pounds  t 

for  every  fuch  Offence  tlliat   he   fta11    be    wilfuiV   guilt;y  of>  £o  be  paid  into 
£he     General   Treafury,  to  and  for  the  Uie   of  the  Colony. 


£«&  TOM  to 

Elttl  Ton>n 


AN  ACT   Eftablifliing    the    Election    of  Town  Officer*; 
in   each  RefpecUve  Town    in    the  Colony. 

BE  it  Enatted  by  the  (jencral  &*4ffembly,  and  by  the  Authority  of  the  fome, 
That  every  Town  within  this  Colony,  fhall  once  in  every  Year,  (  on  a 
Day  to  be  by  the  Free-men  of  each  Refpe&ive  Town  appointed,  )  chuie  and 
cleft  fuch  and  fo  many  Town  Officers,  as  by  the  Laws  oi  this  Colony  are  or 
fnall  be  required.  And  thnt  on  fuch  a  Day,  by  them  appointed,  they  ihall 
Annually  chufe  and  elect,  fix  good  and  fufficient  Free-holders  of  each  Town, 
for  the  conftituting  of  a  low  n  Council  for  each  Town,  who  together  with 
a  lW«.Co«J-  iach  Aififtants,  Jufiices  of  the  Peace  and  Wardens,  as  fha  11  Dwell  and  In 
habit  in  faid  Town,  with  the  Governour  and  Deputy  Governour,  and  each 
of  them,  in  fiich  Town  or  Towns  where  they  Ihall  Inhabif  or  Refide.  fhall 
be  and  they  hereby  are  conftituted  and  appointed,  a  Town  Council  for  jucU 
Town  •,  And  they  or  the  Major  part  of  fuch  Town  Council,  flial.l  be  ,a 
Quorum,  and  have  full  Power  to  Manage  the  Affairs  aud  Intereft  of  fold; 


Xbtir  fswer. 


£'•'£**     Cnroii      Sccundi,      Decitno     O&avo.-  23 


Town.  And  in    all   matters   to  Aft,  Do,  Tranlaa  and  Determine,  all  and 
every  thing  or  things,  which  (hall  fall  within  the  Jurisdidon  of  the  fame. 


be  it  further  Enacted,  by  the  jtutkonty  aferefaid,  That  the 
men  of  each  respective  Town,  fliall  Annually  on  the  Day  of  Eledion  of  Town  ^  EUfad 
Officers,  Eled  a  Town  Clerk,  (  who  ihall  be  Clerk  of  the  Town  Concil,  ) 
«  Town  Treafurer,  a  Town  Sergeant,  a  Town  Packer,  a  Town  Sealer  of 
Weights  and  Meafures,  a  nd  fo  many  Conftables,  Rate-makers,  Overfeers  of 
the  Poor,  Surveyors  of  Highways,  Viewers  of  FenceSj  and  all  other  Officers^ 
as  each  or  any  -Town  in  this  Colony,  {hall  have  Occaflon  for. 


*/n^T)  h  it  farther  Emitted  by   the    Authority    aforefad,    That    the  Free-  _, 
men-  of  each  Refpeaive  Town,  on  their   Refpeftive  Town  meeting  Days,  to  t^uktR-tti. 
fliall  be  by  them  appointed,  (hal!  and  they  hereby  have  full  Power  Granted  MI*. 
them  to    Admit   io  many  Pet  Ions    Inhabitants  of    their  Refpecfcive  Towns, 
^Free-men  of  their  Towns,  as  flial!  be  by  them  Adjudged  deferviog.  thereof  } 
And  that  the   Town  Clerk  of  each  Town,  (hall  once  every  Year  lend  a  Role 
or  Lift   of  all  Free-men  fo   Admitted  in  their  Refpedive    Towns,   to   the; 
General  Atfembly  to  be  held  for  this  Colony  a:  Newport,  the  Day  before  the 
General    Election,   and   alfo  fuch   Perlbns  that     (hall  be   fo    return'd    and 
Admitted  Free-men  of  the  Colony,  Ihall  be  inrolied  m  the  Colonies  Book, 
by  the  General  Recorder. 

AND  be  it  further  Emitted,  by    the  Authority  of  the  famet  That   whofe* 
everfhallbe  Legally  chofen  and  E.'ecled  to  the  Office  of  a  Conftable,  within 
any  Town  within  this  Colony  ,and  IhalJ  refufe  to  lerve  in  faid  place,  foall  ?*y       onx 
as  a  Fine,the  Sum  of  *J\*tt  Pounds  }Six  Shillings  and  Eight  fenctfo  be  paid  into  ?  Pounds,' 
the   Town  Treafury,  to  and  for  the  Ufeoffuch  Town  •,  And  if  the  Per  f  on  Six  Shillings 
fo  chofen  Jhall  refufe  to  Pay  the  fams,thac  then  it  fliall  &  may  be  Lawful  tor  ™*  Ei8ht 
any  Affiftane,  Juftke  of  the  Peace  or  Warden  of  fuch  Town,  to  Grant  forth  a       cc' 
Warrant  of  Diftrels,  to  Diftrain  and  Levy  ib  much  of  faid  Perfons  Goods  and 
Chattels,  as  (hall  Pay  the  fame,  and  the  laid  Fine  ib  Levied,  to  be  paid  into 
the  Town  Treafury  as    atbrefaid. 


be  it  further  Enstted  iy  the  Authority  ajvrefaid,  That  -whoibevcr^ 
be  duly  EleSed  to  the  OfHce  of  Town  Sergeant,  or  Ratemaker  in  any 
Town  within  this  Colony,and  ihaii  refufe  therein  as  by  Law  required,  ftallPay 
as  a  Fine  Forty  Shillings,  into  the  Town  Treafury,  to  and  for  the  Ufe  of  fuch 
Town,  and  if  fuch  Perfons  fliall  refufe  to  Pay  the  fame,  then  it  '  Jhall  -be 
taken  by  Diftraint  in  manner  as  aforeiaid,  lings 

tsfN[T)  *Be  it  further  Ertafted  ty  the  Authority  p.forcfaid.  That  every  Perfon  Tomj 
that   lha'l  be  chofea  and  elected  to  any  Town  Office,  io  any  Town  with  fltbis  itbtgi 
Colony,  (hall  take  the  following  Engagement,  before  he  act  in  his  faid  Office. 

YOV  A.   B-  *Da  hereby  folemnly    Engage^  true  Allegiance    unto  Hit  Afajefty 
ffii  Heirs  and  Sueceffors  to  bear  •,  And  thttt  In  full  well  *>id  jjje  pom  e* 
fruely  Execute   the   Office  »f  for  tais  tnfututg  Tear,  or  until  another  tM> 

lit  Engaged  in  y?ur  rocmy  or  Tau   be   Legally  Discharged  thereof,  arul  this  Erifarc-  mi>it 
tntnt,  Tou  make  And  Give  ufan  the  Peril  of  fht  'Penalty  of  Perjury. 

I    a  An 


34  ts4nno       Rcgni     Regis      Caroli     Secuttdi,     Decimo     Oftavo. 

AN  ACT   for  the   Regulating   of  Fences, 
throughout   this    Colony. 


FORsASzJMVCH  at   Difputes  and 'Differences,  has  ariftn,<tnd  daily  doth  arife 
between    the  Owners  and    Proprietors  of  Lands  within  this  Colony,  about  the 
making   their    proportionable  parts    of  Fence,      where    their  Lands  joyn    and  are 
under  Improvement. 

For    the    Regulating     whereof, 

E  it  therefore    Enailed   by  the  General   dffembly,    and   by    the  Author itj 
of  the  fame,  Tha1-  all  Partition  Fences,  between  Lands  under  Improve 
ment,  (hall  be  made  and  maintained  from  time  to  time  in  equal  halfs, 
the  Proprietors  or  PoffdTors  of  fuch  Land  refpeftively,  and    in  Cafe  any 
Proprietor  of    any    Land,    fhall  Improve  his  Land,    (  the    Land    adjoining, 
being    unimproved,  )     and     make     the    whole  Partition    Fence;    in    fucli 
Cafe,    the    Proprietor  or  PoffelTor  of   the   Land  adjoining  and  unimproved 
lhall  upon  his  Improvement   of  the    fame,  Pay   for   the   one   half  of  fuch 
Partition   Fence,  according  to  the  value  thereof  at  that  time,  and  mall  keep 
up  and  maintain  his  half  part  thereof  for  the  future.    And  in  Cafe  either  of 
the   Proprietors   or  PofTeffors  of  adjoining  Lands,  fhall  refule  (b  to  do  ;  That 
then  upon  Complaint  of  the  party  agrieved  thereby,  to  the  Viewers  of  Fences 
'ft'ofecutei.       i°  fa'd  Town,  any  Two  of  the  laid  Fence  Viewers,  are  to  take  a  View  of  fuch 
Fence  fo  wanting,  or  not  kept  in   Lawful  repair,  and  upon  their  certifying  the 
iame  under   their  hands  ',  The  laid  party  agrieved  may  make  or  repair   the 
Fence  fo  certified  to  be  wanting,  and  recover  the  charge  and  damage  thereof, 
if  not  exceeding  Forty  Shillings,  by  Adb'on   to  be  brought  before  any    Two 
A/fifbtnts,    Juftices  of"  the  Peace  or  Wardens    in   faid  Town,     and  if  the 
charges    or  damages  are  above  Forty  Shillings,  then  at  the    General   Court 
of  Tryals, 


mt  tlint  AND  be  it  further  Enxttcd  by  the  Authority  aforcftid,  That  if  any  Perfon 
wty.nvs  bis  fl^ii  w;thdraw  his  Fence  from  the  Line,  between  himfelf  and  neighbour, 
jlTmltinilln  the  Part7  <l)  do'"S>  mal1  make  'mct  maintain  the  one  half  of  his  faid 
aucMfof  neighbours  Fence  notwithstanding,  faving  to  every  Perlou  fuch  Agreement, 
Hi  Line.  for  the  maintainance  of  their  divijional  Fence,  as  (hall  be  by  them  made. 


Be   it    further    Enatted  by     the     Authority     afortfaid,      That     all 
the    feveral     forts     of    Fences    hereafter     mentioned     and  made,     as    is 
Wl>3tF?nte     hereafter    expreifed,   is  and  fhall  be  deemed  and    adjudged      Lawful  1    and 
fo.tlll'e  deem,  fufficienr  Fence,  for  the  Fencing   in  of  any  Lands,  and  that  ail  other  iorts 
Fence  noc  ^ere  exprefsly  mentioned,  that  fhall    upon  the     View    of  the    Fence 

Viewers,  be  adjudged  as  good  and  fufficient  as  thefe  that  are  hereafter 
mentioned,  fliall  be  demeed  Lawful  I  Fence,  againft  Horfes>  Neat  Cattle, 
Sheep  (^c.  A  Hedge  with  Ditch,  (hall  be  Three-foot  high  above  the  top  of 
the  Ditch,  and  well  flaked  at  the  diftance  of  every  foot  and  half,  bound 
together  at  the  top  and  well  fill'd.  A  Hedge  without  a  Ditch  fliall  be  'four 
foot  high,  flaked  bound  and  rilled  as  a  Hedge  with  a  Ditch;  and  Poft  and 
Rail  Fence  on  a  Ditch  or  Bank,  mail  be  four  Rails  high,  well  fet  in  Pofts, 
and  all  Poft  and  Rail  Fence  without  a  Ditch  or  Bank,  fhaH  be  made  five 
Rails  high,  and  well  let  in  Pofts.  And  that  if  the  above  Ipecitied  forts  of 
Fence,  and  other  forts  not  herein  Exprefly  mentioned,  be  not  ajudged  or 
deemed  equialent  thereunto,  by  the  Fence  Viewers  as  a  tore  faid,  Jhall  be 

deemed. 


tani   Regis     Caroli     Sccunai,       Decimo     Octavo. 


deemed  unlawful  Fence,  and  the  party  that  fhall  be  agrfeved  thereby,  fhall 
have  and  recover  his  Damages  accruing  thereon,  Kgainft  the  -Polfeifor  of* 
fuch  Land. 

AN    ACT,  for  Preventing  any  Inhabitants  of  this  Cofony, 
from  fubje&irig  their  Lands  under  any  other  Government, 


BE    it    Enacted    by    the   general    ^ffimbly,  and   by    the    Authority    of     the 
fame,    That  if  any  Perlbn   or  Per  Ions,  Inhabiting  within,  or  having  any  ^  ^^ 
ri^ht  to  any  Lands  lying    within   the   Limits  of  this   Colony  -,  Jhail  Subjefi,/^//  /,,.4^-a 
Put,  or  Endeavour  by  any  ways    or  means  to  Put,   or  Subject    fuch  Lands,  any  Lw 
under    the  Jurisdiction  or  Authority  of  any  other  Government  or  Colony  t*"1'  "l/jit 
That    fuch    Perfon     or    Perfons,    being      duly     convicted     thereof,     fhall  ^"^ 
Forfeit  to  and  for  the  Ufe  of  this  Colony,  and  towards  the   Support  thereof,  on  the  Pent. 
all  fuch  Lands  by  him  or  them  fo  Subjected,   or  Put,  or    Endeavoured  to  be  <y  tff*fnu 
Subjected   or    Put  under    any    other  Government  or  Colony  ;  and  be  further  '"•§  flfw? 
Fined,    at   the    Dilcretion  of'  the  Judges    of    fuch    Court,  before     *hom^"  \' 
Convicted  j  and  whoever  fhall  be  Procuring,    Aiding,  Abetting  or  Alfifting,  « 
any  other  Perfon  or  Perlons  in   any  of  the    aforeliiid   Offences,    and    being 
thereof  duly  Convift,  ihall  be  Fined  at  the    Difcretion  of   the    Judges  of 
the  Coarc  before   whom    Convicted. 

AN   A  C  T,  to   prevent  exccffive  Riding  in  any  of  the 
Streets   or    Highways    of  the  Towns   of  Newport    and 


W 


Providence. 


HET(J-.AS  feverat    Perfjns     have     had   their  Bones    'Brtke,  and  received 
other   Dam*gest   by    txc-ifivt  Tiding  in  the   Streets  or  Highways    of  tht 
of  Newport  Ana.  Providence. 

For  the   preventing  whereof  for   the  future, 


BE    it  Ena&td  1}  she  ijjcnera'   Affcin'yij^iindby  tbt  t/ftitkerity    sf  the  fa 
That  wholbever  fliall    Ride  rafter   then  a  common'  Travelling  price, 
iu  any    of  the    Streets    or   Highways,  of  the   Town   of   f^exfort,' or &?'&** RK 
ihall  Rid*?  a  Gallop,    .in  the     Streets   or     Highway 3    of   the  Town  ''£ Vy? 
of  'Providtixtj  ihall    for  every   fuch  OtFence,  Forteit  Five   Shillings,  the  o"ne,.n,,;/,  mt 
half   to  the    Informer,    and  the  other  half  to    and   for    the   TJfe     ot    thej  cjca", 
Poor   of   the    Town,  wiiere    fuch     Offence    {hall    be    commitided,    to    be  • 
Recovered    upon    Complaint    thereof    made    before  any     one   Afliftant,  or 
Juftice  o'f  the  Peace,  of   the   Town  where  Iuch  Offence  fhall  be  Comrrmted, 
together  with  the    renfouable   charge    accruing     thereon,    unlefs  Juftiiable 
excule    fhall    be    made    to  appear  "before   the     laid    Ailiitan't,  or  Juftice, 
that  ftalt    Try    the  fame. 

K  AS 


26  Anna     rl(evni     "Rjvis     Caroli     Secundi,     Viceliimo    Primo. 


A  N    A  C  T,  Directing  what  Bonds   the  Sheriff" fliall  take 
of  Perlbns   Arreft'cd  ill  Civil  Actions. 


BE   It  Envied  ly  the  General   Afltmty,  and  by  the  Authority  of  the  fane^ 
That  all   Perlbns  whatfoever,  that  are    Inhabitants    of  this   Colony, 
and  have  a  Vifibie  Real  Eftate    of  Free-hold  in   the  fame,  ot  the 
imrinr*  for     Value  °f  °ne  Hundred  Pounds,    his  or  their    own  Bond     fliall  be  taken  by 
rife  /br/M       the  Sheriff,  to  anlwer  fuch  ASion. 

Anejled, 


AN    ACT,    EftaWifliing  Pounds  and   Stocks, 


BE  it  Enabled  ly  the  Gourd  <^4 'ffemlly,  and  ly  the  Authority  of  the 
That  Each  Refpe&ive  Town  in  the  Colony,  lhall  Erect,  Build,  Make 
and  Maintain  at  their  own  charge,  one  Publick  Pound,  for  the  Im- 
^'?0r™ockt    PoundinS  of  Horfes,  Neat  Cattle,Sheep,  &c.  and  one  good  fufficient  Pair  of 
Ott'be*  fatal-  Stocks  or  Cage,  for  the  PuniJhing  and  Securing  of  Offenders,    in   fuch  phce 
/y  cf  Ten      or  places  of  each    Refpective  Town,  as  fhall   be  to  them  moft  convenient, 
Pound*.        On  the  Penalty  of  Forfeiting  Ten  founds,  to  and  for  the  Ufe  of  the  Colony, 
by  every  Town  as  fKall  neglect  the  fame. 


LAWS 


Made  and  Paft  by  the  General  Aflembly  of  His  Majefties  Colony, 
of  RboJe-IJlanJ,  and  PrtrvtJexce-Plantatfons,  Held  at  Newport t  the 
firfl  day  of  May,  1669. 


AN     ACT,     for  Erecling    a    Townfhip   in  the   tfarraganfeit 
Country,  to    be  called   Wefterly. 

WHER<~s4S  the  Inhabitants  of  a  certain  Trail  of  Land,  in  the  Narragnnfett 
Countiy,  called  and  known  by  the  l^nme  of  Mifquamncuk,  aliat 
Pawcatuck,  71ounded  Westerly  on  the  Colony,  and  Southerly  on  the  S<a^  Ha-ut 
Petitioned  this  AfttnJoly  to  be  Incorporated  into  a  Townjhip  '•>  and  there  '  bring  * 
fufficlmt  number  of  Inhabitants  already  fettled  thereon,  and  L*nd  convenient 
for  the  fame, 

BE  it   therefore  Knotted  by  the  general  Affcmbly,  and  ly  the  Authority  of 
the  fame,   That  the  atorefaid  Tract  of  Land  be,  and  it  is  hereby  lucor'- 
porateda  Townfhip,  and  called  by  theName  of  Weftc rly .-  And  the  In 
habitants  thereof,  fhall  have  and  Enjoy  all  the  Rights,  Immunities,  Priviledges 
and  Powers,  as  other  Towns  in  this  Colony  have  or  do    Enjoy. 


Laws 


^fgtti  Regis  Carol!  Sfcvxdi,  Viceilimo  Tertio  et  Quarto*  27 

LAWS 


Made  and  Paft  by  the  General  AfTembiy  of  His  Majefties 
Colony  of  Rboelt  Ijljud,  and  Providence-Plant  At  ion  in  New- Eng 
land,  Held  ac  Newport  the  Second  Day  of  /W«y  1671. 

AN    ACT,    for  Subfifting  of  Poor.  Prisoners  Committed, 


ac    the   Kings  Suit. 


E  it  Eiatttdby  the   (j  ier '.I  ^fembtjr,  and  by  the  Authority  of  the  fame  t 
That  all  Perions   thai  fti'ii  be  Committed    to  Goal  in  this  Colony,  foor 
or   Criminal  OiFence=,  and  are  1'oor,     and  have  not  wherewithal  to  at  tJx 
.mbfift   themfelves,   fhnll  he  allowed   Fivc-ptnce  per  •£>/>«,   out  ot  the 
General    Treafury   of  chi*  Colony,  tor  tlieir  ciubfiftance,  during    their  im^ 
prifonment.     Provided   they   demand   the  fame. 

LAWS 


Made  and  Part  by  die  General  Aflembiy  of  His  Majefties  Colony 
of  Rfode-/Jla*J,  and  Providence-  Plantations  in  tfcvp-EngUmdt  Held 
at  tiewport)  the  Second  Day  of  M.iyt  1671. 

AN     ACT     for  Incorponring  the  Lands  on  Block 
A  Townlliip  to    be  called  tfeiv  Shoreham. 


WHEREAS   the  Inhabitant!  of  Block  IQand,  have  Tetitiontd  this  Affembty; 
to  b:    Incorporated  a    Tan'nfliip,    and   there   be>»g   A     fujfirirnt    Number   cf 
Inhabitants  already  Stttlcd  thereon,  and  Land  Convenient  for  the  fnmet 


E  it  therefo)  e  Etv&eA  by  the  General  e/fflemb!y3  and  by  the  esfutbarity  cf 
the  fame,  That  all  the    Lands    of    Si<fck-I/lMtd^  be,  and  they   hereb/ 
are  Incorporated  3    Townfhip,    and  called  Ncw-Sb»reham  ;    and  the 
Inhabitants  thereof,  (hall  have  and  Enjoy  all  Franchifes,  Immunities,  £,I 
Prwiledges   and  Powers,    as    in     tlieir    Charter    Granted    them     by  this  Tomfiip,  <m 
AiTembly    is  more  largely   fet  forth.  isiu'd   New. 

K  ^  Laws  Shore.h«ar. 


28  zslnno  Reoni  Rc^ls  Carol:  Sceundi,  Viceffimo    jcxfro  et   Nono. 


LAWS 


Made  and  Pnft  by  the  General  Afiembly  of  His  Majefties  Colony 
of  Rboe/c-fflaadt  and  ProviJence-PlantatitHs  in  tfew-Englami)  Held 
at  Neivporr,  the  Twenty  Eighth  Day  of  Qttoter,  1674. 

AN  A  C  T,  Incorporating  a  certain  Trad;  of  Land  in  the 
Narragatifett  Country  into  a  Townlhip,  to  be.  called 
Kingftown. 

WHEREAS  the  Inhabitants  cf  a  certain  Tracr  "f  Land  in  the  Narraganfett 
Country,  "Bounded   Eafl   by    the  !Narrraganietr-/?/y,    Southerly  the  Seacr 
Ocean,  and  Weft  by  the  Toyqjhip   of  Weflerly,  have  Tctitioned  tins   ^jfcmbly,  to 
'be  Incorporated   ti    Towrijhip  ^   and   there  being  rf   Sufficient  Number  of  Inhabit  ant  f 
already  fettled  thereon^    and  Lund  tonvenient  for    the  fame, 


B 


,  E  .it    therefore    EnxEled    by  the  General    s/fjfembly,   and  by   the  Authority 
tj  the  fame,  That  the  aforefaid  Trad  of  Land    in    the   Narraganfett- 
Kingftown  j  Country,  be,    and    hereby    is  Incorporated    a  Townfliip,   and  called 

'Erected.  -^  Kingftcwn,  and  the  Inhabitants  thereof,  ihall  have  nnd  Enjoy  ali  fuch 

Immunities,   Priviledges  and  Powers,  as  ^n  (],';-   Charter   Granted   them    by. 
this  Affembly,  is   more  largely   and  anpiy   fet  forth. 

LAWS 


Made  and  Paft  by  the  General  AfTembly  of  His  MajefHcs  Colony 
of  Rhode-  IJlavrl,  and  Providence-Plantations^  Held  at  tfewport,  the 
Thirty  Firfl  Day  of  Otiober,  1677. 


WHEREAS  there  is  a   certain  Tract  of   Lund  in  the  Karraganfett  Country, 
founded   l^ortherly  upon  the    "Town    of  Warwick,  and   Eafterly  uyon    the 
arragaufect-^,   Southerly  and  Westerly  as  by  Tlat,  Returned  to  this  jljfembly. 
MelHeurs  Peieg  Sanfprd,  anil  John  SmithjSrrwyw;,  efpcctatly  Impwercd  thereto, 

E  it    therefore  Enafled  ty    the  general    j4ffembtyt   and  by  the    Authority 
of  the  fame-,  That  £he  aforefaid  Traft   of   Land  be,  and  it  hereby  is 


Incorporated   a  Townlhip,   and  called   Eatt  Greenwich,  nnd  ,  the  In- 
habitants  thereof,  fhatl  have    all  fuch  Immunities,    Priviledges  and 
Powers  as  other  Towns  in  this  Colony,  generally  h?.ve  or  do  Enjoy. 

An 


Renni   Rrg's     Carol i     Srca^rf/,       Dec i mo     OiTcnvo.  29 


Aa    Ad     for     Granting    of  Rehearings. 

BE  It  fLn&td  by  the    Central  AffeH&lj,  and   6y     the   Authority  of  the  fame, 
That  either    Pmnn'.f'or  Defendant,  that  flv'-ll  be  agrieved,  at  the  Genei'al  ^  .    ._ 
Court  of  Tryals  by   Judge.ment  given  againft  either     of    them,    fhall     and  ^f^Lnt 
may  have  Liberty  r,\  one    Rehearing,  t.)  the  next  filcceeding  General   Court  may  L.rjc  a 
of  Tryals.     Provided     he    or     they      fo     Rehearing,     fhall    Pay     into      the  ^e!-^>t"g,tf; 
Recorders    Office,  {"within    ten  days  after    Inch  Judgement  rendred    )  ^tthf^J^' 
Cofts  as  fhall   beTaxed  againft  him  or  them  at  fuch  Court,  and  give  fufficient  brtO$ce,t* 
Bond  to  the   Recorder,  to    proiecure  fuch  Rehearing  with  Effed,    and  Pay  pnfedi;e  \1» 
all  fuch  Coft-i;  as  ilml!   be  Awarded  againft  him  or  them,  at  liich  Succeeding  fM"e>  Sic- 
General  Court  of  Try  a  is. 

AN  ACT  to  Enable  private  Perfons  to  Recover  their 
Debts  due  from  any  Town  by  A&ion,  againft  the 
Town  Treafurcr. 


BE  it  fna&ed  by   the  (jtncral  t^ffemlflj,  and  by  the  Authority  of  the  fame, 
That  all  Perlorls    wh?tibever,    That  mall  have  any    Money   due  to  him  Horn 
or.  them,  from    any    Town  in    tiiis  Colony,  for  any    matter,  caufe  or  thing  foe  from  3 
whatfoever,   fhall  take  the  loll  nvinj;  Method  for   the  obtaining  Q(  the  fame,  f0"""  "f*  •*' 
(  to  wit  )  fudi    perfon    or  perfons,    (lull  Prefent  to  the  Town    Meeting,    a'J<^'n/'    , 
particular  Account,  of  fuch  Debt  or  Money  dqe,  and  how  Contracted  :  which  Exhibited  & 
being  done  in  Cafe    Jaft,   and  dae  latisfacHon  is  not  made  him  or  them  by  '•'fTo^n, 
the  Town  Treaiurer  of  fuch  Tfwn,  within  one   Months  time  after  fuch  z.c- ^etvi!&  <  <**<• 
count  be  given  in  as  aforelaid,  that  then  it    fhall  be  Lawful  for    fuch  perfon  T^tfw-i     *" 
or  perfons,  to  Commence  his  or  their    Aftion   againft  fuch  Town  Treafurer,  fa  &iedfor 
for  the  recovery  of  the  fame,  and  upon  Judgement   Obtained  for  fuch  Debt tJ>e  f-'me. 
or  Morty  due,  in  Cafe  the    Town  Treafurer  fliall  not  have   fufficient  of  the  j\ thfloifn 
Towns  Money  in  his  hands,  to  fatisfy  and  pay  the  Judgment  Obtained  againft  nosfu&w'* 
him,  and  the   charges  expended    in  defending   fuch  Suit  ;  That   then    upon  to  pay  the 
Application  made  by  fuch  Town  'Treafurer,    to   any  one  Afliftant,  Juftice  of£IM*.*»£j$a 
the  Pence  or  Warden   of  iuch  Town,  luch  Alliftanr,  Juftice  or  Warden,  fliall^^"'^  f 
grant  forth  a  Warrant,  to  the  Town  Sergeant  of  fuch  Town,  Requiring  him  JifrjiM'°  ™ 
to  Warn  the  Inhabitants    of   luch    Town,  to  hold  a  Town  Meeting,  at  luch  who  u 
tjme  and  place  as   ihail  be  Appointed,     for  the   fpeedy    ordering   end  making  -'^Wi 
a  Rate,to  be  CoU^ited  for  the  Reimburfement  of  fuch  Town  Treaiurer  ',  And"'-v,/c 
in  Cafe   fuch  Town    upon  due   Warning   given  them,    {hall  not  rake    due,  the  fa,. J 
fpeedy,  and  effeftual  care  to  Reimburfe,  Pay,  or  Satisfy  fuch  Town  Treafurer  -in,t  ,f.lv^ 
fuch    Moneys,  C'ofts  and   Charges  by  him    Expended  or   Recovered    againft  T°*xjl>aif 
him  ^  That    then  upon   Information  or   Complaint  thereof  bv  him  made,  to  $7%%? 
the  next  General  Affembly  of  this  CoUmy,fuch  order  fhall  be  given  therein,for  _,,;•.,'„'  fafa^ 
the  laid  Treafurers  Reimburfement,with  allowance  for  all  incident  cofts,  char-  tj  ilJC  ov«. 
ges  and  trouble  occafioned  thereby  ;  and  fuch  Town  {hall  be  Fined,   at  the  ''^ 
Pifcretion  of  the    laid  General    Aifembly. 

L  An 


or 


Rigni  Regis  Caroli  Sccundi>  Viceflirno   Sexto  et   Nono. 


AN  ACT,     Enabling    the    Sheriff  to   Appoint    and    Conilituce 
a  Deputy  or   Deputies. 

BE    it   Enitfled    //y__  the   Cjcneral   csfjfcmbly,  and  fy  th(    Authority  of  the  faint 
That   the   Shir  iff  of  this  Colony  for  the  time  beine,  (halt  at  all  times 
hereafter  have  Power  and     Authority,  to   Conftitute  and    Appoint   one  or 
more  Deputies   uad?r    him,   for  the  due  Serving    or  Executing  any  Writ, 
e.  Warrant,  or  Execution,   belonging  to   his    Office,  as  alfo   to  Col-eft  Fines 
and  Amercements. 


be  re.      f^O^lTLI)     always,    and     it  is    Enatted,   That    fuch   Sheriff    fhall   fca 
e  for       Refponlable  for  any    neglect  or  mifdoing,    of  fuch  his  Deputy  or  Deputies, 
in  the   Matters  and  Trufts   committed  to  him  or  them. 

An  Adi,    for  Amercing   Perfons  Chofen   to  Serve  as  Jurors 
at  any  Court  in  this  Colony,  for  Non-Appearance. 


BE  it  Enacted  by  The  general  Afttmbly,  and  by  the  Authority  of  the  firn?9 
That  in  Cafe  any  Perfon  fhal)  be  duly  Chofen  by  any  Town  in  this 
upon  Colony,  ferve  on  a  jury  at  sny  Court  in  this  Colony,  and  fhall  not  make 
mn-appca.  his  due  Appearance  at  duch  Court  as  by  Law  he  ought ;  that  then  luch 
SVhiu  Pcrfon  fta!1  (  for  fuch  h's  default  )  be  Amerced  the  Sum  of  Thirteen  Shillings 
t«n  Siiil-  an^  Four-fence^  by  the  Judges  of  faid  Courr,  unlefs  they  fhaH  fee  reafonable 
linps/fvJ  caufe  to  mitigate  or  remit  the  fame. 
Four-pence. 

Town  jincJ,          tsfT^JD  be  it    further  "Ena&ed   ly    the     Authority      afcrefaiJ,     That    m    Cafe 

if  fay  fatt     any  Town  fhall  neg'eft  to  chufe",  ?nd  fend    their  number  of  jury-men,  or 

/Zw'jjjjwM     ne8Je<ft   and  &nd  Perfons  not   qualified  according  to  Law  ^    that  then   fuch 

of  gnaii/ieJ    Town  (hall  be  Amerced,  for  every  fuch  Perfon  fo  Omitted  to  be  lent,  or  un- 

Jwy.attn.       qualified  as  aforefaid,  the  Sum  of  Twenty  ShiH'tngs,to  be  Levied  by  Diftraint  up- 

*y  Di/lr  />"     on  C^e  ^ate  °-   t^ie  Trea(ijrer  of  fuch  Town,  by  Warrant  from  the  General 

3    '<  rti3-     ReCorder,    directed  to  the  Sheriff  of  this  Colony,  or  his  Deputy,   the 

Treafurer  to  be  Reimburfed  by  fuch  .Town. 


AN  ACT,     Direding    the   Duty    of  His    Majeflies 
Attorney   General   in  this  Colony. 


B 


E  it  therefore   Enabled  ly  the  General   Affembiy,    anA  h't    the 
of  the  fame,  That  His    Majefties  Attorney  General   for   this  Colony, 
Gc-   JL/'  fhall  conftantly   give  his  Attendance  at  all  General  Courts  of  Tryals, 
(•'•     anc^  <^oa^  Delivery,  where  his  Attendance  is  by  Law  required,    for  the  fervice 
Ma)efty  :   And  is  to  give  unto  fuch  Court  or  Courts,  due  Advice  and 
Diem,  .in.;' to  Information,  concerning  any  Crimes,  Breaches  of  the  Peace,  or  Wronps  done 
Jr.-.*  .r.'  /,-/.     to  His  Majefty,  or  any  of  His  Sub}efts,that  fliall  come  to  his  knowledge  :,  and 
Jf*"1"1*  /to  draw  up  and  prefent  to  fuch  Courts,  all   Informations  and  Inrlidinents,  or 
other    Legal    Procefs,   againft    any  fuch  Offenders  as  by    Law   is    Required, 
and  diligently  by   a  due  courfe  of  Law,    to    Profequte  the  fame,  to  final 
aaid  Execution,  An 


Anno  K'gni  Pegis  Curoli  Sccund'i,  Triceffimo. 


AN  ACT,    for  the  Prorcdion  of  Wi  .tneffes  f-om    Arrcd,  that 
ihall  come  from  another   Govcrnm  nc  to  give  Evidence. 


WHT.REAS  m.tnj  times  it  fa!!}  o.vf,   thit  ^erfons  Livirg     In   other  Govr--r.~ 
irients,  can  give   Evidtncc  again  ft  Criminal;^  but  far   (ear  of  btin^  /irnTrfi. 
ure  difc  our  aged  from    givine  tbtir   I'erjonAl  Attendance  in  the  Courts    cf  this  Col  my, 
As  is  ncedjul  And  rfejuifite  in  Juch   Cafes. 


BE  it  therefore  bna&ed  bj  tht  General  t^jffrtibl^   and  \>J  rbt  Authority  of  • 
the  famtj   That  where  any  Perlon  fli-ill  by  Notification  in  Writing  from  *.f; 
any    'Afiifi.;int,  JuAice  of  the  PC  ire,    vVarden,   or    from  the  General  Go\-f'l..-,;nt 
Recorder  ot  this  Colony,  be  defired  to  Appear  before   fuch    Affift.int,  to  s'^-c  &•<. 
Jufiicc  of  the  Peace  or  Warden,  or  before  any  Court  in  this  Colony,  to  give  **""    '?*  t: 
in    Evidence    in  any  matter  relating  to  any   Criminal  Offence  }   That  fiich 
Perlon  (hal!  be  Proteiied,  ?';d   free  rrom  sll  Arreft    in   Civil  Aftions,  during 
the  nee  eiTary  time  of  his  coininij  and  giving  Evidence,   and  retruning   oat  ot 
this  Government  again. 

LAWS 


Mi<te  an<l  Paft  by  the  General  AfTem'Wy  of  His  Majefties 
Colony  of  Rboetc-IJlafU/,.  and  Providence-Plantations.  Held  at 
tfewport,  the  Thirtieth  Day  of  /Way  1678. 

AN     ACT,     for  Incorporating    the     ffland   of    Cevanicut 
a  Townfhip,  to    be  called  James- Town. 

WHEREtAS  Mr.  Ca!ebCarrj//r.  Francis  BrinlyyW  other  Inhabitants  of  the 
Jjland  of  Conanicut,   H*vt  Petitioned  this  Affcn.blj,   to  be  InctrforAttd    A 
T'ownfltip  '-,  and  there  being    a  fujjicitnt   number  of  Inhabitant s  tbtreov,  and-    Lund 
convenient  for  the  fame, 

BE  it   therefore  Enacted  [7  the   Cjexerai  AJf->nt>!y)  end  by  the  t/4uthiritv  of 
the  fame ,   That  the  abovefaid  liland  of  Conanicut,    be,  and  it  is  hereby  9^"a,nlcoS 
Incorporated  a  Townfhip,  and  called  Janet  TOIPW,  and  the  Inhabitants  f'^'if/^' 
thereof,    (hall  have    and    Enjoy    ail  llich  Franchifes,    Liberties,  Priviledpes  Ttnnflip    ,n« 
and   Powers,  as  the   Town   ot   New  Shorehnmj  ;u  this  Colony    Have,  Do,  '•'#''  James 
6r  ought  to    Enjoy,  Town- 

L    2  Lnvys 


Anno     fRjt»i     ^~e£ts     Caroli     Stcwdiy     Triceflimo    Primo. 


LAWS 


Made  and  I\ifl  by  the  General  AiTembly  of  His  Majefties  Colony 
of  Rhode -Ijlarxf,  and  Providence-Plantations.  Held  at  Newport,  the 
Sixth  Day  of  May,  1679- 

AN    ACT,      Prohibitng    Sports^    and     Labours  on    the 
Firft  day  of  the  Week. 


An  Perjnn  to 


BE  it   E-Jdft'd  by  rhe  (general  ^4(fcmbly  of  this  Colnry^  and  by  the  ^uth 
of  thefame,That  noPerfon  nor  Perions  within  thisCo'ony,{rtall  do  o 
ercile  any  Labour  or  Bufinefs,or  Work  oi  their  ordinary  Ca!ling,n'or 
,         Pin    or       can   on.  the  Fft 


-^any  Game,  Sbort,  Pi^v  or  Recreation,  on  the  Firft  Day  ot  the  Week, 

Labour,  nor  ,         •>   .      ..  .'.  .      ,->,•,,  0  , 

Phyentbe      nor  fuffer  the  lame  to  be  done,  by  their  Children,  Servants  or   Apprentices 

fnf   D,y  o/(  works    of  Neceflity  and   Charity   only  excepred  )  on  the  Penalty  of  Five 

tit  Week.        Shillings,  for  every  fuch  Offence,  to  be  L.evyed  on  due  Conviction  thereof,  by 

*y'o/Five       Warrant  of  Diftrefs,  Irpm  any  one  Affifta'nt,  Jjflice  of  the  Peace,  or  Warden, 

Shillings.       to   the  Conftable  of  fuch  Town,  where  luch  Offence  fnaii  be  committed,  to 

and  for  the    Ufe   of  the    Poor  of  fuch  Town,  together  with  the  reafonable 

charges  accrueing  thereon-   And  in  Cafe  fuch  Offender  flini!  not  have  fufficient 

to  fatisfy  the  fame,  then  to  be  fee  in  the  Stocks,  bv  the  fpnce  of  Three  Hours. 

And  that  whofoever  (ball  Improve,  fet  to  work  or  encourage  any  other  Perfon's 

Servant,  to  Commit    any     of  the    aforefaid    Ollences,  Jhail  fufFer  the  like 

Punilhment    as  aforefaid. 

AN    A  C  T,  for   Preventing    Sailors,   from    being  Truftcd 
or  Credited  for  Strong  Liquors. 


WfJEjtEss45  ir  is  the  frequent  Complaint    of  ^Jl/aflers  and  Commanders 
of  Shipi- and    other    f^tff!eltt   of  Great  'Damage  fufttintd    by    them,    by 
rettfon  of  the  Entertaining  and  Trusting    of  Sailors^   (   Ship'd  in    theif 
"Emplvy,    )    by    Tavtrn-kecpcn    and   others,    whereby    their    VayAgti     Are     many 
htndred- 

BE  it  EntEted-fy  the  (jtneral  t4ffeml>ly,  find  by  the  Authority  of  the  fame^ 
That    if   any   Perlbn  or  Perlons,  keeping    any     Tavern,    Ak-houfe, 
Vi&ualling-houle   or     Ordinary,     fhall    Truft   or       give    Credit  to 
ioTniJl  ft  Sit',  any  Saiior,    Ship'd  on  Board  any  Ship  or  other  VelTel,  without  the  knowledge 
lor  «!tove  Five  aruj[  Conlent  or  Older  of  the  Maf.er  or  Commander  of  fuch  Ship  or  Veflel, 
hngs"       whereunto   fuch  Sai'or  flail  thtn  belong,  for  any   more   or  greater  Surn  than 
Five   Shillings.     And  fuch  Perfon  or  Perlons  giving   Credit, '  or  Trtifting  fijch 
Sailor   for  more,  {hall  be  wholly  barrVi,  during    the   time  fuch  Sailor  dial] 
remain  in  liich  Commander  or  Matters  Service,  from  bringing  any  Action  for 
the  fame^  &  in  cafe  luch  Perfbn  (hall  cnufe  fuch  Bailor  to  be  Arrefted,detained 
or  hindred,   irom   following  his  Comraawders  or  Mafters  Jimjiloyon  laid 

Voyage 


Anno     Ke^ni  Regis     Caroii     S    •//<»»,       Triceffimo     Spcundo. 

Voyage,  contrary  to  tin's  A&  j  fuch  Commander  or  M&fter  fhal!  have  his 
Action  againft  fuch  Peribn  thereupon,  and  recover  his  tulJ  Damages 
with  Cofts. 

LAWS 

Made   and  Pad  by  the  General  Aflembiy  of  His  Majefties  Colony 
of  RboJe-Ijland.   and    Providence-Plantations-,  Held   at 
the  Fifth   Day   of  May,  1680. 


AN    ACT,    Granting  Appeals  to  the  General  AflemSly,  from 
the  General  Courts   of  Tryais. 


BE   it   EnaEftd  by  the  General   jljfcmbty,  and  lithe  Authority  of  the  fame, 
Thar  in  all  Perfonai    A&ions,    wliere    either  phntiff  or  Defendant, 
mnll  Obtain  two   Judgment?  f>r  him  at  the  General  Court  of  Trv/ls 
in  one  A&ion  and  Cau!e  brought  to  the  fa;d  Court  ;  The  other  Party  againft 
whom  faid    judgments  were  given,     fi-mll  have  Liberty   to   Appeal    to   the  m.^  ,JK,e ,J7. 
next  General  Aiiemb'v,  from  the  laft   Judgment  for  Relief,  who  may  if  they  Appe'xifjom 
fee  Juft   and    Reafonable  Caute,    Cnnfiiin,  Alter,  Amend,  or  Reverie    fuch  (*'" r 
Judgments,  and   give  a  new    Judgment  thereupon,  as    to  the  faid  Aifemb'y  aj''' 
lhall  appear  to  be  agreeable   to  Law  snd    Equity  .-  And  that  each  or  either 
Appellant   or.  Appellee,    fl\ail    and    may    have  Liberty    of  giving  in  new 
Evidence  upon  fudi  Appeal. 

PROVIDED     Always,    the    Parry   defirin'g  an  Appeal,  (hall    within  the  r, 
fpace  of  Ten  Day?,  after  Judgment  given  in    faid  General  Court  of  Tryals,  J 
Enter  his  Appeal  with   the  Recorder   of  this   Colony,  and    Pay    into    the  diys  'after 
faid    Recorders     Hands,   I'hrct  Tnuncij,  to   and   for    the    Uie    of     the  faid"/«% 
Affembly,  for  the  Entering  thereof,  and  lucli  Cofts  as  was  Awarded  on  Aid 
Judgment,    and     give     Sufficient     Bond  to     laid     Recorder,   for   the    due 
Frofecution  ot  fuch    Appeal    with    Etfeii.    And    in    mean    time     Execution 
fhall  be  ftayed,    until    the  Determination     and    Decree  of  (aid   Ajfembly 
be   given   thereon. 


be  it   further  Enitted   hy    the    Authority  a  fare fa  ,<,      That  the    Party  T>>t 
Appealing,    fliall  talce  out  copy    of  the  whole  Record  ot  faid  Judgment,  from  law  to  take 
out  of  the   Recorders  Office,   Signed  ro  by  laid  Recorder,  to  be  Prelented  wta 
unto  fuch  General  Affembly,   and'allb  ftal!  Ten  Days  betore  meeting  ot  fuch  °' l^ 
General    A(femb!y,    File  his   Realbns   of    Appeal    with   the    Recorder,   that 
the  App'llee  may  \\-\vs  a  cony  thereof,  and  hive  due  time  to  put  in   his   An- 
fwer  tliereto,  at  the  firft  Opening  ot  laid  AlVernblv, 

M  AN 


34-  n/4nno  Rsgni  Regis  Carol i  Secundi,   Viceffimo    Quarto. 


AN    ACT,  to  Inforce  the  Election  of  Town    Officers,  at, 
their  Uiiial   Days  of  Election. 


BE  it  Enatted  by  the'  general  jdfimbly,  and  by  the  Authority  of  the 
fame,  That  if  the  Freemen,  of  any  Town  in  the  Colony,  fhall  Neglect 
/"rtvToan  on  their  Ufual  Days  of  Election,  to  chufe  and  eled,  fo  many  Town  Officers, 
ttglet}  to  as  by  them  have  been  Ulually  Elected,  for  the  Management  of  their 
cfiife  Tovn  Prudential  Affairs  ;  That  then  and  in  fuch  Cafe?,  upon  any.  fuch  Town 
Off"'-  being  Prefented  to  the  General  Court  of  Tryals,  by  the  Grand  Jury,  and 
Omt  '/TV*-  duly"  Convicted  thereof}  fuch  Town  or  Towns,  fhall  be  Fin'd  at  the 
ah  10  order  Dilcretion  of  the  Judges  of  fuch  Court,  not.  Exceeding  Fifj  'Pounds,  and. 
the  ctnijmg  the  Judges  of  laid  General  Court  of  Tryals,  fhall  give  '  forth  and 
order,  appointing  and  ordering  them  to  chufe  and  elect  their  Town  Officers 
as  Uiual,  for  the  remaining  parts  of  laid  Year,  at  luch  time  as  ihall  be 
by  them-  Enjoyned. 

LAWS 


At  the  General  AlTembly  of  His  Mdjellies  Colony  of  Rhode- ?Jli*tf9 
and  Pr  evidence -Plant  at  ions )  Held  at  Newport,  the  Tmrd  .Day 
of  May,  i68z. 

AN   ACT   for  Eftabliftiing  A  Naval  Office- 


WHEREAS  by  Letters  from  ffis  MO&  (jracloitt  M^jeSty,  to  this   Colony, 
Itetted  the  Twelfth  <Day  of  November,   in  the    Thirty  Firjl  Tear  of  Hit 
"X^ign,   It  is    Ordered  and    Commanded,    That  a  T^aval    Office  he    Erttttd  in 
this    Colony. 


-,,    _  ~»  *m  £    it    therefore   Enatted   by  the  General  v4Jfen&ty,  and  hy   the  S. 

naur  tTcm.      §-^  °f  the  fame,  That  the  Governour  of  this  Colony  for  the  time  being, 

JlitnteaNa-  ^  fhall,  and  hereby  is  Impowered  to  appoint  one  or  more  Naval  Offices, 

val  Office.        ^  •*  in  fuch    Place   or   Places  in  this  Colony,  as  he   fhall  think  ft     and 

"o'ffi  ^nf       needful,    and   fhall  Annually   appoint  a  proper  Perfon   or  Perfons  as  Naval, 

*">    Officer  or    Officers  therein,  to  take   Entries   of  Veflels,  and   in  all  things 

belonging  to  faid  Office,  to  take   care  that  the  Laws  Relating  to  Navigation 

or  Guftoras  and  Duties  on  Goods  and  Merchandize,  be  duly  obferved. 


A^no  'Rj-gvi  Rfgts  Caroli  Sccundt,  Triceilimo  Quarto.  35 

AN  ACT,  Confirming  the  Grants  heretofore  made 
by  the  Inhabitants  of  the  Towns  of  Newport,  Trout- 
deuce,  Porffmoufb,  Warwick,  and  Wefterly,  and  to  Ena* 
ble  faid  Towns  to  make  Prudential  Laws  and  Orders, 
For  their  becccr  Regulating  their  Town  Affairs. 


WHE'RJ-.AS  in   the   Fifteenth  liar     cf  the   T^ign  of  our  ^yni    Sovereign 
Lord  Charles    the     Second,  of  Tiltff'd     •JMemory,    there     was  a     Charter 
Granted  to  this  his  A'f-tje ttus  Colony  of  Rhode-Hland,«*»«l  Providence-Plantations 
in   New- England,   In  which  was  contain  d  many  Gracious  Trtvilcdges,  Granted  to 
the    Free  Inhabitants  thereof  ;  a-id   amongft  o:hers   »f  the    faid  "T>f'tviledg;s1    there 
teas  Gff  anted  to  the    General    ^ffembty  of  faid  Colony,  full  'Power1  and   i^futhon'ty 
ti>   Make  and  Ordain    Law,   fulling    the    Nature   and  Constitution  of  the   'Place  5 
and  in  Particular  to    Dirctt,    Rule    and    Order  all  mutters  Relating  to  the  Purchafet 
of  Lands   of  the   T^jttive    Jndi.'.ns.     <^A:id  this  Prejent      ^ff'tmbly,    Taking     into  77 
their   feriotti  Co,:fiJcr.tti«rt,     Th.it    the     L.tndi    of   the  feveral  Towns  ef  Newport,  m&bj'tbt 
Providence,    Portlinouth,    Warwick    and   Wefleriy.  were    Purchased  (  by    the  Temu  of 
feveral  Inhabitants  thereof,  )  of  fhe   Nuive  Indium,  Chief  Sachams  of  the  Country,  Newport, 
before  the  granting  cf  the  ff.id.  Charter  ;  fo  th*t  an  Qrder  or  IJireEtion   from  the  faid  6cc-Cl"3*"'i 
jiffembty'  could    nat    be  ebtain'd    therein,    and    it    being     thought   Neteflary     ttnci 
Convenient  for   the  rcafons  aforefaid,  That  the   Lands  of  th:  aforefaid  Towns  Jhould 
be  by  an   Act  of  the  General  Afttrr&ly,  of  this   fits  tJlfajcfties  CSlony,  Confirmed, 
to     the    Inhabitants    thereof   according    to    their    Several    and    Refpetfive    Rights 
and  Intcrtft  therein. 

BE    it  therefore    Knitted    by    this   Prejent   j4jfcmbly,  and   by  the   estfutbariff 
thereof  it  is  Eiis.ttcd,  That  all  the   Lands  Lying  and  being,  within   the 
Limits  of  each  and  every  of  the  aforefaid  Towns,  of  2\[/tp/wf,  Providence, 
Portsmouth,  W*rwfckytna  Wetterly^  according  to  their  Several  Relpe^ive 
PurchafQs  thereof  mnde  and  obtain'd  of  the  Indian  Sachejms  j  Be  ^nd  liereby 
as   Allowed   of,  Ratified  and  Confirmed,  to  the   Proprietors  of  each  of  the 
aforefaid   Towns,  and  to  Each  and  Every  of  the  faid  Proprietors,  their  fcveral 
r.nd   Refpe&ive  Rights  And  Interefts  therein,  by    Virtue  of  any  fudh  -Purchafe 
pr    Purchafes  as   aforefaid,  TO  HAVE  AND' TO  HOLD,  all  the  aforefaid 
Lands,  by  Virtue  of  the  leveral  Purdiafes  thereof,  with  all  the  Appurtenances, 
Priviledges,  and  Commodities  tliereunro  belonging,   or  any  wife  Appertaining, 
to  them    the  aforefaid  Proprietors,  their   Heirs" and  Afflgns  for  ever,  in  as 
Full,   Lawful,     Large  and  Ample  manner  to  all    Intents^  Conftru&ions  and 
Purpofes  whatfoever,  as  if  the  faid  Lands,  and  every  part  thereof,  had  been 
Purchafed  ot  the    Indian  Sachams,  by   Virtue  of  any  Grants  or  Allowance 
Obtained  from   the  General  AfTembly  of  this  Colony,  after   the   Granting 
i>f  the  aforefaid  Charter ;  and  whereas  there  is  within  feveral  of  the  Towns 
within  this     Colony,    confiderable   of   Lands,    Lying     yet    Uncommon     or 
Undivided  -,  And    for  the  more    orderly  way  and    manner  of   the    feveral 
Proprietors,    their    manasinsi  the   Prudential    Affairs  thereof:  And  for  the 
more  dfed^ual  making  of  Juft  and  Equal  Divifion  or  Divifions  of  the  fame,  lo 
that  each  and  every  of  the  Proprietors  may  have  their  True  and  .Equal  part 
or  proportion  'of  Land,  according  to  his  or  their  proportion  of  Right,  and 

M  "ji  that 


3<5  Anno     'l\cgni     'J^jgis      (t     ^gin*.  Gulielmi  it  Maria; 

that  the  Exsft  Boundaries  of  each  and  every  Mans  Allotments,  when   Laid 
to  him   may  be    kept  in   'Perpetuam. 

It  is  further  Order  t  A  and  f.natled  fa  the  ^4urtj>frity  afcrcf<*id,  That  it 
fhall  and'  may  be  Lawful  for  the  Proprietor:-,  of  each  and  every  fuch 
Town  within  this  Colony,  being  convened  by  a  Warrant  from  under  the 
^and  ?rid  Seal  of  an  Affiflam  or  Juftire  of  the  Peace,  in  inch  Town,  the 
Occafion  thereof  being  Ipecified  in  tie  Warrant,  for  them  or  the  Major 
part  of  them  fo  met,  to  chufe  and  appoint  a  Clerk,  and  a  Surveyor 
or  Surveyors,  and  fuch  or  fomnny  other  Officer*, as  they  Jhall  judiie  needful 
and  convenient,  for  the  orderly  carrying  on  and  management  of  the  whole 
Affairs  ot  fuch  Community,  and  in  like  manner  to  proceed  trom  time  to  time, 
as  often  as  need  {hall  require. 

,  .  And.  it  is  further  Or4enJ}Thzt  each  and  every  Town  within  thisCoIony,fiiaH, 
7Ww  't'om.ikt  and  are  hereby  fully  Impower'd  to  Make  and  Ordain,  all  fuch  Acls  and  Orders, 
Acts  and  Or.  for  the  well  Management,  Rule  an-.i  Ordering  ail  Prudential  Aifairs,  \vJrhin 
r  tkir  their,  and  each  of  their  Refpeciive  Buunds  and  Linvts,  as  to  them  Ihnll 
feem  meet  and  convenient.  Always  Provided,  and  in  iVh  Cafes,  luch  Ads 
and  Orders,  are  not  Repugnant  or  DJlagretable,to  the  Laws  ot  this  Colony. 

LAWS 


"Made  and  Pafl  by  the  General  A(T?mbly  of  His  MajHd'e.  _..  ~..7 
of  Rbitde-Ijla*fl>  and  Providence-Plantations*  Hold  at  Newport,  the 
Sixth  Day  of  May,  1600. 

AN    ACT,     for  Eftablifbing  Juft^cfcs  of  the  Peace,  in  the 
Refpedlive  Towns  of  this  Colony. 

Jvsli:cs  of  the  T3  £  *'  ftuStd  ly  tbi  Cjtneral  ^(ftmbly^  and  by  the  Authority  of  (he  pt>*ft 
Ftacetoi-c  [3  That  the  General  Atfembly  that  is  Yearly  Held  at  Viewport,  the  Firft 
Wednefday  of  M<*yy  fliali  during  their  Settlor:,  Annually  rhuie  and  Eleft  fc> 
many  Jufticcsofthe  Peace,  for  each  Reipc^ivs  To-.vr.  in  the  Colony,  as  to 
themiln'l  !cem  needful  -and  re.wifite,  for  the  better  Adminiftratioa  of 
Juftice,  in  e.v.h  Reipe£tive  Town. 

n^'N(7)  be  it  'farther  Enacted  by  the  sJtahcrity  etfertfaij,  That  whofbever 
fltall  bs  E!f-.'!l'i--l  to  the  Office  of  Juflice  of  the  Peace  in  this  Colony,  fhall  take 
the  ihmc  E-^agenpent,  as  the  General  Officers  take,  betore  he  lhall  Aft  or 
Ofncisie  i;i  faid  Office,  and  th;^  every  jufticeof  the  Peace  ihall  be  Commiluon- 
y'eJi -Engage.  ate^  befoio  his  AcKng  in  his  Office ',  by  the  Governour  of  this  Colony  for 
the  time  being,  under  the  Seal  of  the  Colony,  which  Commiiiion  fhaii  be 
in  the  follow  jug  Form,  (  to  Wit.  ) 

YOV  A-  B.    bein^  Cho/en  by  t'teljevtral  Afc-mbiv,  of  this  their  ftfsjeftirs  C»lany 
oj  Rhode-Iflwrf    *»&  Providenoe-Plwitatioas,  t»  rO*  \HM>.  *.«*  0$cc  <-f  * 


Anno     P".f::i  Rt^is     et    Re?,inx  GuHeimi  et    Marine     Secundo.  57 

Juftlce    of  tbf    Tcacc,  for    the  7t'ir«    of  Ton.  Art  hereby  in    their 

Jifaji&lis   T^tm;  by    the    (jrac'e    of  God  over     England, 

Scotland,  France,  and,  Ireland,  King  and  Queen^  ''Defenders  of  the  fjirh  &c. 
Cunrniffi-iHXttd  to  take  cure  far  Keeping  and  <Prtjerv>n£  tine  Peace,  and  Adminiftring 
the  L,i.i>i  throne';  out  tli:  Townfoifjor  the  which  Ton  ar.e  Choftn^according  to  the  Laws 
of  thfr.  C')l?»y,  •  itnd  Sttttir.es  »n  fuck  C-tfet  Trovided  And  mide,  and  tn  appear  at 
all  Cjur.tt  ofTryili,  or  mxke  T^jtuw  thercunfot  concerning  all  Delinquents,  er  fuch 
•sodium  by  finite  of  your  Finer,  by  the  L.-tws.yju  jljall  "Bifid  over  unto  fuch  Courts* 
an-l  -ipw  Ejpccinl-  Occ.tfion  to  fend  forth  Tour  Warranty  to  make  Hue  and  Crj^  to 
./tpwcbend  any  Al.il.t]>>civr,  upan  Complaint  unto  Yuu  made,  in  behalf  of  their 
JLf.tjtftics  ;  which  Wssrunts  are  ftri&ly  to  be  Obferved  and  Ptft  thra-ug'iour  this 
C-'lonyj  fir  the  e/ifflrehtnding  any  Perfon^to  Anfwer  at  the  Kings  Suit.  And  for  your 
fo  Dtii'.g)  Tbii  Comnujfi<Ht'fi*&  be  jour  Sufficitnt  Warrant  and  Difchargt. 

Given  under  my  Hand,  &c. 

AN  ACT,     Eftabliiliing    the    Proceedings    and  Tryals     of    all 
Actions,   not    Exceeding   Forty   Shillings. 


BE  it   "Enaticd  by    the    general   Aftemhlj^    and    by  the  Authority  of  the  fame, 
That  all  manner  of  Debts,  Trelpaifes  and  other  Aftions,    not   Exceed- 
ing  Pony  Shillings^  (  wherein  Title  of    Lands  is  not  concern'd  )  fhall  and  may 
be   H.?nrd,  Tryed,  Adjudged  and  "Dete framed f  by  .aud   before  the  Affiftanrs,  Forty  shij. 


Warrant   or  Summons,  againft  the   Fatty  complained  of^    to  be  Diretted  to 
the  Conftable  or  Town  Sergeant  of  fuch  Townj  where  fuch  Defendant   fhall 
be  at  the    time   of  Granting  forth  fuch   Warrantor  Summons,  and  then  to^iranftnf  °t 
Adjudge  of  fuch  Cafe  in  Difpute,  between  the  Parties,  Plantiif  and  Defendant,,  bT^mtil 
JriearingjExaminiug  and  taking  according  to  I.,a\v}aH  fuch  Evidences  as  fhall  be  ou^ 
by  either  Party  produced  \    and  -after  Judgment  given,  to  Gnnt    forth  an 
Execution,  to   the  Conftable  or  Town  Sergeant  as  a  fore  fa  id,  to  Levy  the  faid 
Fine,  Debt  or  Damage,  with  the  charges  Accruing    thereon,  upon  the  Defen 
dants  Goods  and  Chattels,  (  unlefs   the  Defendant  farisSe  ?>nd  P^y   down   the  i~pm  con_ 
Judgment    and    Cofts    Awarded  againft  him,  )  and  fuch  Goods  arid  Chattels  vtfion  Ezel 
fo  taken  by  Diftraint,  ihall  be  Rxpofed  to  Sale,  returning  rhe   overplus  if  ;uiy  £7/f«";^£» 
there  be,  to  the  Defendant,    and  for  want  ot  fuch  Goods  and  Chattels,  to 
make   fuch  Diftrels    upon,  and    to   take    the    Hody  of  fuch  Defendant  into 
Cuftody,  and    him  to   Comrnit   to  any    of  their    Majfffties   Goals  within  this 
Colony,  there  to  remain  until  the  faid  JFine,  Debt  or    Damages,  with.  Cofts  ,-. 
be   fully    iatisfied    and  Paid  j  and  in    Cafe  the  Plaintiff*  be  Non-Suited,  or  ^."^Jf/j. 
Judgment   pafs  ajainft  him,     then  the  laid  Affiftantg    or    Juftices,  CT-C.     are 7  fatoL 
diereby  Impowered  to  Aifefs    the  Defendant,  reasonable    Colts  acainft  fuch  Committed  ta 
Plaintiff,    to   be  JLevyed  .and  Recovered,  in    (he  fume  Manner  and  Form  as  is  %fal'p,  •    •* 
above  espreffed.,  and  the  faid  Afiiftants  snd  Jufi-ites,  are  hereby  Required  to  i*f^  '™tf 
p  fair  Records  ot  all  their  Proceedina.?,  therein  from  time  to  d/ne.  oflfa.$tit. 

JSS  And 


*Anno  Regni  Regis  et  Regia&  Gulielmi    et    Maria:    Secundo. 


be  .it  further  Enatttd  by  the  Authority  aferef*l4,Thzt  either  Party  ,whether 
flrntiff  and  P'aint^  or  Defendant,  fhaD  and  may  -have  Liberty,  to  Appeal  from  any  fuch 
Defei:</.mt  Judgmenc,.  to  the  next  iucceedine  General  Court  of  Tryals,  to  be  Held 
lai-e  either  for  the  Colony,  he  enrering  into  Bond  with  one  fufficient  Surety,  in  double 
Liberty  of  ^  the  Debt  and  Damages  Sued  for,  and  fufficient  to  anfwer  all  Cofts  that  fliall 
GeEi/Cowv  arire  on  fcll-e  Prosecution  of  his  faid  Appeal  wirh  Effect,  and  abide  the 
of  Tryals.  Judgment  of  faid  Courts,  where  faid  Appeal  fhall  be  Tryed,  and  Receive 
Wboftjufa.  a  final  JfTue,  without  any  further  Rehearing  or  Appeals,  and  fuch  Re- 
men:  fall  be  cognizance  taken  as  aforefaid,  fliall  be  by  fuch  Afliftaurs,  or  Juftices  of  the 

Peace,  returned  into    thff  Recorders   Office,  ^t    the  Sitting  of  fudi  Court 

as    aforeiaid. 


the  Party  Appealing,  fh»H  bring  the  Copies  of  the  whole  Cafe,  to 
luch  Court  of  Tryals  Appealed  unto,  where  fuch  Party  fhall  be  allowed 
the  benefit  of  any  further  Plea  or  Evidence,  and  if  upon  iuch  new  Plea  or 
Evidence,  the  Judgment  iha  11  be  Reverfed,  the  Appellant  fliall  have  no  Cofts 
Granted  him  for  the  firft  Tryal  :  And  the  Ailiftants  and  Juftices,  and  other 
Officers  .concerned  in  the  Proceedings  or  Tryal  of  fuch  Actions  asaforefaid, 
fliall  take  thefe  following  Fees,  hereafter  Stated,  and  no  more. 

Fees  in  A&ions  not  Exceeding  Forty  Shillings, 


Affiftants      and      Jirflces     Fees. 

/.      7.    d. 

FOR  a     Warrant    of    Arrefiy  oo  01  oo 

For   every  Summons.  oo  01  oo 

For   Judgment.  oo  04  oo 

For    Recording   of  Judgment.  oo  04  ^  oo 

For  Bond  to    the  Peace  or  good  Behavior                                eo  oz  o5 

For   Recognizance   on  Appeals.  oo  01  06 

For   Execution.  oo  01  06 
For  Copy    of  the  Cafe,   the  fame   as    the  Recorder. 

Conftable    and  Town  Sergeants  Fees, 

FOR   Serving  of  every  Warrant,  if  not  above  one  ^ 
Mile   from  Home-  oo    oY    oo 

If  above  one  Mile   Two-pence  fer  Mile,  Forward  and  Backward, 
For  every  Perfon  Sumoned,  if  not  above  one  Mile  from  Home,     oo    oo     06 
Jf  above  one  Mile  Two-pence  per  Mile  Forward  and  Backward, 
For  every  Execution  Served  upon"  Perfbnal  Eftate,  not  -\ 
above   one  Mile   from    Home.  f  oo    01     J3 

If  above  one  Mile  Two-pence  per  Mile,  Foreward  and  Backward. 
For  every   Execution  upon  the'  Body.  oo     OT     co 

If  above  a  Mile  drftauce  from  Goal,  Two-penct  per  Mile  Forward 
and    Backward. 

The  Conftable  and  Town  Sergeant  to  be  allowed, for  attendance, 
at  the  Difcretion  of  the  Court. 

Ta 


trm  K'gis  Gulielmi  TcrtSj  Oftavo.  39 


T 

T 


o  every   Evidence  for  taking  Engagement.  oo     o?     oo 

o  every  Witnefs  for  Attendance  per   Ditm.  oo     ct     O(j  , 

11  above  one  Mile  irom  home  live-fence  ycr  Mile  Forwards  &  Backwards. 

AN     ACT,     for    Regulating     the    Fcrrys. 


BE  it  hnafled  \}j  tlst  General   djjemty,  avtl   \>y    tkt  tsfutbority  of  fht  fane,  jUTr-fiu 
That  all  and  every  perton  or  perl~mx,  ktep'ii^  a    Ferry  within    this  on  /'»//'/)';* 
Colrmy,  fhall  at  a'll    feniorub  e  times  carry  and    Transport   over  fuch  Strict,  ta 
Ferry   or    Ferries,  die   pei  ton  Riding  Poft,    and  all    Officers,  and  all  others  ^,'^Jfl 
Travelling    Backwards   and    Forwards,     up-Ti  'he    IVilick  .Service    of    the  ^  pcm 
Colony,  without  demanding  any  thing  for   rranipjrtation.  a^c  f:ct« 

LAW    S 


Made     nnJ    Pait     l^y    the  General     AfTeni^ly    of    His   Majcfties 
Colony  of  /?.'W.'  Tfla»eft     and    Yrovitkuee-PtiUitAtiws*       Held 
the   Fifth     Day    of    /W.ry 


AN"  ACT,   Regulating   the  Granting  of  Commiflions  to 
Private   Men   of    War. 

OR  the  Preventing  of  any.  Illegal  A&ions1,  or  Depredations  bv  Privateer?, 
"  Commiffionated  by  the  Governour  (>r  Deputy  Governour  o  "  tliisColrny 
any  of  His  Majafties  Subjects,  ot1  others  in  Alliance  with  his  Majefty. 

Cr/,,7!«  of 

BE     it     En.  tiled,     by    the    (jcncral    Af  vAly,    and    by     the   csfutharirv   of  ftwte    Met 
the  fame,    That  no~>  perfm  or    perl'-'nsj    fhali  have  any     Coromiiiion  ^  ^^hou- 
,/iven  him  or  tiiem,  by  the  Governour  or  Deputy   Governour  of   this  7^  pOUIM} 
Colony,  for  the    Equipping  or  Fitting  our  any  Veifel    or  Veifels,  '  for  the  Hwi. 
Annoyinj;,  Taking,  Seizing  or  Deftroying   His  Majeftie.1-  enemies,  before  fnch 
Per  (on  or   Rerfons  defirir,^  luch  Commiffion,  give    Bond   of    Ojie  Th?ufand 
founds,  Sterling  Money    of  '  En?tl.i»d,  with  good  Sureties  for  che  dne  Observing 
and  Acting  according  to  fuch  Commiffion  ;  and  that  neither  fuch  perfon  or 
perons  or  any   under  his  or  their  Command,  fii^ll  at  any  time  or  pbce  Com 
mit  any    Acl-;  of  Hoftiiity,  Depredation   or  Injury,  to  or  agftinft  any  of  His 
Mjjefties  Sbje^s  or  his   Allies,'  or  that-  are  or  fiiall  beat  fuch  time  in  Alliance 
with    his    fajd  -Mnj-eny,   but    in   al'l  things    lhall  Ad  againft    His   Ma  jt:  flies 
enemies,    according  to   the    Commillion    given    him  or    them,  and  that  all 
Friy/.s    by  him   or  them  Taken  from  His  Majefties  Enemies,  fiial!  be  brouglit 
info  tome  Port  within    His    Majefties      Dominions,     there  10    receive    luch 
Examination,  Tryal  and  Condemnation,  as  hy  this?  Judge  'or  Judges  Appointed 
by  His   Majefty,  ftial)   be  AdjaJoiM  Lawful. 

is  2 


Gulielmi     Tortji 


AN     AC  T,    for  Collecting  of  Rates,     where  the  Perfon 
Rated    hath    no  vifible     Eftate. 

E  it  Enatttdty  the  General  jtffen&ly.Mtd  by  the    Authority  of  the  f*met 
That  it"  any  Petlbnin  this  Colony ,being  Lewdly  Rated  in  any   Town, 
and  (hall  Refufe  or  Neglect  ro  Pay   luch  Rate,  being  by  the  Officer  to 
f....,      •*    *  whom  luch  Rate  Jhall  be  committed  to  Collect,  Legally  Demanded  of 
t-.il nc "'. '! ;.>jy    *ucn  perfbn  (  in  Cafe  no    vifible  Eftatecan  be  found  by  fuch  Officer  lufficienc 
R.UCI,  to  be    for  the  Payment  thereof  whereon  to  Diftrain  )  ihall  be  by  luch  Officer,   (  who 
f  ta  is  hereby   Impowered  )  Committed     to     His  Maiefties   Goal    in 

^7  *  »  >.        «.  .  ,-..»_  * 

to  Remain  untif 


AN  ACT,  for   Regulating  the  Sitting  of  die   General  Allembly. 


WHEREAS    it  h.tfh   been    found  by  long    Experience,  Ttixt  the  Covernourr 
"Deputy  Cjovernoxr  and  e/ijjijktnts,  fitting  with  the  'Deputies  for   the  fever  tit 
Towns,  httth  \>ten  A  great  hindrance  in  the  Afanaging  of  the  Publick  j4/,iiri  o\  the. 

For    the    Preventing    whereof   for  the   Future, 

BE  it  Enabled  by  the  (jtneral  */4flem\>tjt  c.nd  \>y  the  Authority  of  the  [amey 
That  at  all  times  hereafter,  During  the  Seflions  of  the  General 
*^fz^/o  Affem"!y  °*  this  Colony  ;  The  Governour,  Deputy  Governotir  &  Aififtauts, 
CaiHprfeihe  fh^ll  Sit  apart  from  die  Deputies  of  the  leveral  Towns,  and  Debate  and  Vote 
L'pter  Hnfe,  in  all  Publick  Affairs  of  the  Colony  by  therafelves,  and  (hall  be  TernVd 
andVatca.  and  Called  the  Upper  Houfe. 
fj>t. 

AND   that  the  Deputies  of  the  feveral  Towns  in  this  Colony,  /hall  alfb 

TAe  Deptitiei  Sit,  Debate   and  Vote,  in  all  Publick  Affairs    of  this  Colony,    During  each 

<•>  -S'  &  Vij:t  SefTion  by  themfeJves,  and    (liall    be  Term'd  and  Be   the  Lower  Houfe,  and 

''  ihaii   Elect  their  Speaker    and  Clerk,     for    and    During  the  continuance  of 

fuch    Alfembly  }  and    in   Cafe    the    laid  Upper  and    Lower   Houfe  ( for  the 

Tryal  of  any  Appeal,  or  other  Occafion  )  fhall  lee  caufe,  it   fhall  and  may  be 

Lawful,   for   them  to   Refolve  themlelves  into  a  Grand  Committee^  and.  Sic 

and  vot.e  together,  for  the  better  Determining    of  the   lame. 

AD 


Anno     Reani  Regis     Guliehni   .Tertij     IJJecimo.  41 

AN   ACT,    for  Preventing   of  any   Intrufion    into  the  Lands 
in    the  tfarrapatifeft   Country. 

WHEREtsfS  fundry  Perfon:,  fav:  fettled    tbtmfelves  and    F<in,ilits,  in    tbf 
Narruganfett  Country,  without  rfvy    Legal  Title  to  any    Land  therein,  and 
Without  the  Confent  and  Approbation   of  the  General  Jfftmblyof (his    Colony, 

For    the     Preventing    the   111    Conferences    thereof,    and   the 
like    Intrufions    for  the  Future, 


t  it  Eta&'d  by  the  CjtnerAl  &4jfeml>tyt  And    by    the  Authority     of  the 
Umt,    That  all  Poffeffions  of  any  Lauds  in  the  Narraganfett  Country,  Of  JUI/MJ  l 
-ibcained   by    Inrrufion,    without  the  confent  and  approbation  of  the  ;/*  Narra 
General     Affembly,    be   /Deem'd   and    Adjudged    Illegal   and    Void  ganletr 
in  Law,  and  (hall   not   give  unto  fuch  Pofieffors,any  Right,  Title,  Intereft,  ?'/*V 
Property  or  Claim  therein  or  thereunto ;   and  the  Affiftants,  and  juftices  of^wL> 
the  Peace,    of  che  Towns    of    Kitv  frown,   Wefterly,  and  Eaft-Greenwich,  fhalUe  wit. 
return  the  Names  of  all   fuch  Perfons,  tliac  have   Intruded  as  atorefaid,  (  or 
that  mill  Intrude  thereon  hereafter  )    to  the  General    Aflembly    from  time 
to  time,  that  they  may  in  fuch  Legal  manner,   as  they  fliall  think  fit,  order 
the    Removal  ot  fuch    Intruders,  and    Pteferve    the    Juft    Rights,    of   this 
Colony    thereunto. 

LAWS 


Made   and     Paft  by    the   General    Aflembly    of   His      Majefties 
Colour  of  «Wf  [fli»jt  and    Providence-?  lantationst  &c.    Held  at 
eivport,   the  Fouun    Day   of  ^liy,    1698. 


AN  Additional  Adt  to  an   A6V,  for   Eftabiiilung  Weights    and 
Measures    throughout    this   Colony. 

HEREAS  fcvera!   Tt,a>ns  in  the  Colony  have  bttn   deficient,  itnd  have 
Nepltcfed   ts    Provide    Weights  and  tjUta/vrtf   purfuttnt  to  tin    A&  of 
Af-mbly,  fajl   in    thit  Cnlony,  March  tht  Firft,    166$.    Entitultd, 
for  Eitabliihmg    Weights   and    Mealuies. 

For     the     becter     Informing      whereof, 


W 


£     it    EnnRed    by     thf     General      jtffefnblyt    and     bv     the 
of  the  fame,  That  the  Town  Treafurer  oi'  each  refpcftive  Town,  fttall  "acb'l'wa' to 
at  the  iroper   c  >i^  and  charges  ot  each  Town,  provide  &  procure  ths*»wjA 
ieverai  Weights  and  Meafures,  as  is  Specifieci  in  the  afore-ciced    Ad,  ^f^*f^ 


42,  tAnno  Sfgni  Rtgis     Gulielmi  Tertji  Deiimo. 


(  Paft  the  Firft  Day  of  March,  1663.  )  within  the  fp?.ce  of  one  Year  after 
the  Dare  hereof,  (if  not  already  Supplied)  which  ftall  be  Proved  und  Sealed, 
by  the  General  Sealer  of  the  Colony,  with  the  Stamp  of  an  Anchor,  and 
every  Town  that  flnll  Negled  the  lame,  (hall  Pay  as  a  Fine,  Five  founds 
into  the  General  Treafury  ^  To  and  for  the  Ufe  of  the  Colony,  and  the 
General  Sealer,  ihali  be  paid  for  every  half  Bufliel,  by  him  Proved  and 
SeaFd,  Six-pence  j  and  for  every  other  Weight  and  Meafure  T'hree-pcme  each 
and  the  Town  Sealer  for  every  Weight  and  Meafure  by  him  Seal'd* 
Thr"-?™">  to  be'  Faid  by  the  Owner  thereof. 


rf  be  it  further  Enacted  by  the  Authority  aforefaiet)  That  whofoever  fhali 
Sell  by  any  other  Weights,  then  are  agreeable  to  the  afore-cited  A&,  {hull 
Suffer  the  Penalty,  as  is  therein  mentioned. 


AN  ACT,  for  Puniftiing  of'  fuch  as  (hall  Refufc  to 
Aid  or  Obey,  the  Afliltants,  Juilices  of  the  Peace, 
Wardens  or  Conflables,  in  the  due  Execution  of  their  OlHce 


B 


E    it    therefore    Emitted   by  the    General    a^jfeml'ly,  And  by   the 
of  the  fame,   That  whofoever  ihall  Refafe  to  give  Aid,  or  duly  A/fifty 
to  any    Affiftant»  Jufti"  cf  the  Peace  or  Conftable  in   this  Colony,  iu  the  due 
r  Execution  of  their  Refpective  Olfices,wheu  thereunto  lawfully  Required  j  aj;d 
in  tke  Ewu.  be  duly  Convicted  thereof,  before  any  Affiftant,  or  Juftice  of  the  Peace,  &c. 
h       fhall    for    every  fuch    Offence,  Pay  as  a  Fine   Ten  Shillings,    into  the  Town 
'B  be  Treafury  of  fuch  Town,  where  fuch  OfYence  fliall  be  Committed  ;  and  if  the 
"       Party  P>   Offending  Refufe  to    Pay  the   fame,  then  it*  ihali   be  taken   by  a 
Warrant  of  Diftreis,  and  be  dilpofed    of  as  atoreiaid. 

AN  ACT    for  Preventing   of    Sheep   and  other    Cattel,  from 
being  Worried   and  Tom  by   Dogs. 


^flK 
V  V 


grt<tt  'DArangf  has  bten  done  to  many  Perfons,  by 
Warring?  and  oftentimes  Killing  their  Sheep  and  other  fm»ll  Gattel 

For    the  Preventing 


,  lt   ^na^e^    h    ^    ^^erd    j4Jf?mb!y,    and   by    the    <iAuthorlty    of  the 

&c.  fj  fame,   That  in  Cafe  any   Perfon,  iliaiS  have  any  Sheep  or   other  Cattte, 

Or.  tut  ft.      Worried,    Torn  -or  Killed   by  any  Dog   or  Dogs,  that  the  Owners  of  iuch 
SheeP   or  Cattle>  flia!1  Recover  againft  the   Owner  of  fuch  Dog   o  r  Dogs, 
b^"    Action  of  the  Cafe  with    cofts  of  Court  ;  and  that  if  afterwards,  any 
;!>s  further  Damage  be   done  by  fuch  Dog  or  Dogs  to  any  Sheep  or  Cattle,  in 
Jike  m^!]ner  that  &&  Owner  of  fuch  Dog   or  Dogs,  ihali  Pay  to  the  Party 
a40ft«<  a^rieved  thereby,   double  Damages,  to   be   Recovered   in    like  manner  as 

"' 

AN 


with  Cofts,  and  that  fuch  Dog  or  Dogs  be  Killed, 


Annu  "Rj&ai  R<g"  Gulielmi  Tertij  Decitno.  43 


AN  ACT,    for  the  Impounding  of  Cattle,  'Sheep,  &c.  and  for 
Recovering  die  Damages  that  fliall  be    ~ione  by   them. 


BE  it  Entiled  ly  the  (general  AfemUyt  And  \>y   the   esfxthiirityoftht'fyrKe, 
That  if  any  Neac  Cattle,  Horie,  Sheep  or  Hogs,  ihall  break  into  the  ~, 
Grounds  of  any  Perfon  through  Lawful  Fence,  the  Party  agrieved,  i7rr->tV ;', 
fhal)  have  his  Liberty,  either  to  Recover  his  Damages  by   Action  againft  the  C.ittle  fowk 
Owner  or  Owners  ot  the  fame,  or  otherwile   to  Impound    the  fame,  in  the  '"<?  »«'»/-^ 
Publick   Town   Pound,  and    forthwith   upon  luch   Impounding,,  to  get  Two  ^'c^'/^** 
Free-holders  of  fuch  Town,  to  Apprize  the  Damages  done,  and  fuch  Cattle  fcuwj^e  'A 
Hories,  Sheep  or  Hogs,  to  be  kept  in  luch   Pound,  until   the  Damage  and  jffwi,  or 
Charge  of  Impounding  be  Paid  by  the  Owner  thereof.  otixm;e  to 

Impewid. 

TROVIDET)  always,  and  it  »  Enafted,  That  in  Cafe  the  Owner  or    Owners 

of  fuch  Cartle,  &c.  fhall  lee  caufe  to  Replevin   the  fame,  that  it  {hall  be  f?3'1  *£*•'*• 

Lawful  for  him  lo  to   do,    he  giving  Bond     to   the   Affiftants,  or  Juftices  /t"^w^"" 

of  the  Peace  granting  fuch  Replevin,  to   profecute  the  feme  with.Effefi, 

if  the  Damage  Apprised  Exceed  not  Forty  Shillings,  before  Two  Affiftants,  or 

Juftices  of  the  Peace,  in  faid  Town,  and  if  the  Damage  oe  above  Forty  Shillings, 

then  to  be  prolecuted  at  the  next  fucceedisig  General  CourC   of  Tryals. 

AND  the  laid  Affiflant,  or  Juftice  of  the  Peace,  granting  fuch  Replevin, 
/hall  return  the  fame,  with  the  Bond  by  him  taken,  ( if  Tryable  at  the  Ge 
neral  Court  ot  Tryals  )  to  the  Clerk  ot  laid  Court,  Twenty  Days  before  the 
Silting  of  fudi  Court  :  And  if  Tryable,before  the  Affiftants  or  Juftices,  then 
Ten  Days  before  the  Day  appointed  for  Tryal  •/  and  thereupon  the  Party  Di- 
ftraining,  fhall  put  in  his  Avowry  or  Juftification  of  Impounding,irito  the  Ge 
neral  Court  of  Tryals,  Eight  Days  before  the  Sitting  of  faid  Court,  with  the 
Clerk  of  laid  Court ,  and  ii  before  the  Aiiiftants  or  Juftices,Four  Days  before 
the  time  appointed  for  the  Tryai  of  the  fame,  with  one  of  the  fai'd  Affiftants 
or  Juftices. 

AND  be  it  further  Emitted,  That  fn  cafe  the  Owner  or    Owners   of  fuch 
Cattle,  &c.  Impounded,  fhall  not  within  Teii  Days  after  the  Impounding  the  //r  .,„   iv.pjf 
fame,  pay  or  fatisfie   the    Damages  apprailed,  and  Charge  of  Impounding  and  vin'd  wltl  " 
Feeding  fuch _  Cattle,  C7c.  or  otherwife  Replevin  the  fame  as  aforefaid  ^   that  te»n.ys. 
then  fo  many  of  faid  Cattle,  &c.  fhall  be  Sold   by   Publick  Outxry,  as  will**'90'^'0, 
pay  and  fatisfie  the  Cliarge  and  Damages.  DaxsgUi 


AT^T)  be  it  fur&er  Entiled,  That  the  Pound-Keeper  (liall  feed  Cuch  Cat 
tle,  crc.  Impounded,  at  the  Charge  of  the  Owner  thereof,  and  fhatt  be  al 
lowed  and  paid  for  every  Neat  Beaft,  or  Horfe-kind  Impounded,  Four-pmce, 
and  for  every  Sheep  or  Hog,  O.n  Tainy,  before  Difcharged  from  the  Pound. 


be  it  .further  Evatted  by  tbs  Authority  a£oref<tidt  That  no  Hog  OC 
Hogs,  (hall  run  at  lar^e  in  any  Town  in  the  Government,  from  che  firft 
of  Febrv.'uryj  to  the  middle  ot'Ottobcr  Annually,  Unyoked  or  Unringed,  (unlefs 
by  Act  of  any  Town,  for  (uch  Town  it  be  ordered  otherwife,  )  and  it 
.Xcmay  be  lawful  for  any  Perlcn  or  Peribns,  to  Impound  any  Hog  or  Hogs, 
running  loofe  contrary  to  this  Ad,  and  the  Ow-ner  of  fuch  Hog  or  Hogs, 
fliall  Pay  the  Poundage  thereof,  belore  they  be  from  Pound  difcharged. 

O  2  An 


44  Anno     T^t^ni     "Kjgi*     Gulielmi     Teitji    Decimo. 


A  N     A  C  T,    for  the  Preventing  Fires   doing  damage  in 
the    Town  of 


01\»SfS<!jMVCfI  AS  the  "Buildings  in   the   Tew  of  Newport,  are  centtguaui 
and  adjoining  to  one  another  jn  mtftpartt  of  fa<d  Twnjfbtreby  Firt  in  bretkinr 
out  may  da    itnfpeukeable  damage,    unlefs   tiwly  T'ovidcti  jar. 

BE   it  Enacted    by   the  Cjeneral  ts4ffeml>ly^  and  by  tin    4*fhority  "/*  'he  f«met 
That   the  Owner  or  Owners,  of  each  and  every  Dvvellinp,-Houte,  in  the 
/v'      Town  ot  2yOnf«'rf>  fr°m  the  P"»nJ  at   the   No'th-eaft  end   of   the    Town, 
down  to  the  Sea  fide,  and  fb  Southward  ard  Northwad,  as  far  as  the  Buildings 
are   contiguous  or    adjoining    one  t>    an->ther ',  fhall     prov:de   ?nd   ]  -c.it  re 
(within    Six  Months  troro  the  D.re  hereof  )  tor  each  Dwell  ing- Houfe,  ,me 

Quite  K.  £    LaUler    of   fufficient   Lenuh,    to    rench  to  the  Rid^e  ot  his  or   their 

n.tiiy  of  One  ^,  .•  .        . .  .     °  ,  ,_ 

Shilling         Dwell mg- Houte  ;  and  the  lame  connuallv  Keep  in  repair  •,  thnt  every  Owner 

»n  Mon*b.  or  Owners  ot  any  Dwelling- liouU*  fhnU  n^iileit  to  do  the  Inme,  he,  Ac  or 
they  f<»  neglecting,  (h:ill  for  every  Mon^h  after  fnid  >ix  Months  are  Expired, 
Forfeit  as  a  Fine  to  and  for  the  Ufe  of  laid  Tn\vn,0ae  Shilling  per  Month,  to  be 
recovered  up m  Complaint  mavle,  and  "onvift?d  thereof  before  any  Affifi^nt, 
or  juftice  ot  the  Pesce  of  faid  Town,  by  Warrant  of  Diftrefs  ~  excepting 
owt  of  this  Ad,  all  fuch  Houfcs  which  have  Walks  or  Turrets  thereon,  or 
Conveniency,  as  fhill  be  aJjud.jed  ani  deemed  equivalent  thereunto. 

AN    A  C  T,   for  Prevcning  Fraud  in.  Fire-Wood, 
Expoied  to  Sale. 


BE  »r  Enacted  by  the  Central  Jjfembly,  and,  fev  the  t^futhoritf  o(  the  fame, 
That  al)  Fire-wood  Expofed  to  Sale  in  this  '"o'onv,  Jhall  be  Four 
Foot  Lonq,  Meafurins  to  one  Half  of  the  Carf,  and  ftp!)  be  Sold  by 

iK°"/e,St  the  Cord  »  and  that  t!ie  ^^  fta11  b*  KSht  F°oc  Long,  Four  Foot  High, 
foot  long.  w     well  (lowed    and    clofely   laid  together. 

AND  that  in  every  Town  in  this  Colony,   where  Wood  is  Expofed   to 
le    by    the   Cord,  the    Free-men  of  faid  Town   (hall  (  if  they  think  fit  ) 
Annually  chuie    and    Ele&,   one  Wood-Corder,  who   (hall   take    the    fame 
Engagement  to  his  Office,  as  other   Town  Officers  do  }  and  fhall  have  f»ur 
ptnce  per  Cord,for  «very  Cord  by  him  Corded,  from  the  Seller  of  faid  Wood. 


be  it  further  Enabled  try  the  Authority  aforefaid,  That  whofoever 
jflf  V'ood  E*.  fl^u  jj^jj  or  £Xp0fe  to  Sale,  any  Wood  that  is  not  of  the  Length  as 
ftlntnnft>C<  afbrefaid,  ^U  upon  due  Conviaion  thereof,  before  any  A/fiftanf,  or  Jufiice 
fair  foot  lo*g,  °f  the  Peace  of  fuch  Town,  where  fuch  Offence  ihall  be  committed  ; 
'  Forfeit  all  fuch  Wood  fo  Expofed  to  Sale  5,  tlie  one  half  to  the  Informer, 
rnci  the  other  half  to  and  for  the  Ufe  of  fuch  Town  •,  to  be  taken  by  a 
Warrant  -of  Diftrefs,  to  be  Granted  by  luch  Affiftant  or  juftice,  to  whom 
Complaint  IhaU  be  made.  Au 


Ciuiiolmi  Tertij  Duodecimo, 


AN   ACT,    for  Preventing  the  mifapplying  of  the  Rates  and 
,  that   fnaU  be  hcvcahcr   Alleiled    and   Levied    in  this 


Col  On  v. 


BE    it     F.n,Ktr:{     fy    the    (jtntrnl    Ajfembly,    and    Ij    the  rsJitthority   of 
thr  f,t>»:,   That    all   Rates  and  Taxes,    tint    (hall    be    Aifclfed    and  jVj  RMS  to 
Levied  in  this  Colony  for    the  future,  ftvill   be  applied    to  no  other  te 
Uie  or  U&S  whatfo«'ver,  then  thole  for  which   the  fame    ihali  be  -Vie  Ted 
and  Levied;  Any    Cuftom    or    Ul*.ia,e    to     the    contrary     hereof  not'.vith- 
landin. 


. 


A  N  A  C  T,  for  Building  A  Goal   in  the  Town  of  Providence* 


BE  it  Entitled    if   the  General    tSfjfimMf,    and    by    the    Authority  of  the 
hmr,  That  there  fliall    be  a  Goal  Ereded  and  Built  in   the  Town  of 
Providence^  for  the  fecuring  fuch   Criminals  and  Prifoners  for  Debt,  ^AGcal  to 
as  fhtill    be   by   lawful  Authority  Committed  thereto,  and  that  the  Bn;!t  JK  tf,e 
Sheriff  of  this  Colony  for   the   time   being,  and  in  his   ablence,  the  Town  *f'p"  ef 
Sergeant  of  laid  Town    for    the     time    being,    ihall    have  the    Care    and  VldencCl 
Cuftody  of  the  fame- 

LAWS- 


Made  and  Pafi  by  the  General  Alfembly  of  His  MajelliesCofony 
of  Rhode-ljland,  and  frouidence-T 'LtntatioHS,  &c,  Held  at  tfetppert} 
the  Thirtieth  Dny  of  Aftil-,  1700, 

AN  ACT,  for  putting  in  Force  the  Laws  of  England  in  nlf 
Cafes,  where  no  Particular  Law  of  this  Colony  hath 
Provided  a  Rcinedv. 


BE  it  En>icled  by  the  Cencral  j4j)\»ilijf,  and  \>y   the  lAittberito  of  the  fame, 
Tliat  in    all  Actions,  Matters,  Caules  and   things  whatfoever,  where 
no  Particular  Law  of  this  Colony  is  mnde   to  Decide  and  Determine 
the  lame  ^   that  then  and  in  all  fuch  Cafes  the  Laws  of  EngUnd  lhall  be  put 
tu  Force   to  IlTue,   Determine  and  Deride  the  (ame.     Any  Uiau;e,  Cuftooi 
or  Law  to  the  contrary  hereof  notwithftanding. 

A/* 


45  AMD     '^j^'l     '^.fg:f     Gulielmi     Tertji    Duodecimo 


A  N   A  C  T,     for  the   Enabling  the  Governour  of  this  Colony, 
to  pur  in  Execution  the  Statute  of  Trade  and  Navigation. 


B 


E  it   Enxftcd  by  the  Cjenerat  jtffe»Atjt   and  ly  the  Authority  of  the   fame, 
That  irom  jand  atter  the  Publication  of  this  Act,  no  Matter    of   any 
ji  Ship- or  Veliel-thac   fhail  come  into  any  Bay,  River  ov  Fort  within 

fii.:t  ,1r>a-e  —  the  Precincts  of  this  Colony3ihali.or  dp  prcfume  to  Land,  Unlade  and 
in  this  GJ-  puc  on  Shore,  any  Wares,  Goods  or  Merchandiy.es,  before  he  hach, 
wiT'1'-/;*  > -t0  m;lc*e  ReP°rt  thereof  to  the  Governour.  or  in  his  abier.oe,  d>  the  Deputy 
Report  to tbt  Governour  \  and  have  lawfully  Entered  the  .fame  in  the  CoHedois  Office "; 
Qactrm?,  under  the  Penalty  made  and  linacled  by  the  Parliament  oi  1-,/sl.anl,  in  the 
See.  Fifteenth  year  of  Kino;  Ch.irles  the  Second,  for  preventing  of  frauds,  and 

Regulating  abufes  in  the  Plantations. 


And  be  it  fitrtbci'    F.n.ttted    by    the  Authority  aforcf;iti,   That    if  any   Mnfter 


to 

,  the 

power  or.  any  Afllftant  or  Juftice  of  Peace,  c>~c.  or.  fuch  1  own,  where  fuch 
Paifenger,  &c  fhall  be  Landed,  To  Require,  and  Command  fuch  Mailer  or 
Commander,  to  take  on  board  his  Ship  or  Vei'iel,  fuch  Paiienger  or  Puliengers, 
as  have  been  by  him  Landed,and  him,  he,  flie  or  them  fo  taken  on  Board,  to 
Tranfport  and  Carry  out  of  this  Colony  :,  and  if'any  Mafter  or  Commander 
of  any  Ship  or  other  Veffel,  fliP.ll  reful'e  or  negle<3:  fo  to  do,  that  then  it 
ihali  and  may  be  lawful  for  any  Ailiftant:  ur  Juftice  of  the  Peace,  &c.  to 
Grant  fbrthra  Warrant,  for  the  Apprehending  of  iurh  Mafter  or  Cominiindcr, 
and  him  Commie  to  his  Majefties  Goal  in  this  Colony,  until  tliat  he  give  in 
one  Hundred  Pound  Bond,  with  Security  to  perform  the  lame. 

AN  ACT,  for  Preventing  of  Clandeftine  Tranfportations   of  any 
Perioa  or  Perfons  out   of  this  Colony. 


WfJEREs^S  di'Veff  Matters  of -Skip t,  and  other  f^ejfelsy  da  from  time  to 
time  Tranfport  and  Cany  away  out  of  this  Colony ,  many  Terfons  who  are  In 
debted  to  feveral  Inhabitants  ofthif  Colony,  without  giving  any  Account  of  the  Names 
cf  fuch  'Perfons  by  them  fo  Carried  }  which  n  a  manifest  Injury  to  the  Creditors  of 
fuch  Terfons,  (tnd  fame  of  them  are  hereby  undone  j  for  the  frc-venting  whereof  for 
the  future, 

BE  it  Enabled  by  the  general  t^ffembly,  and  by  the  Authority  of  the  Jamt, 
That  no  Mafter  or  Commander  of  any  Ship  or  Velfel  whatfoever,  fhali 
out'of'the'co.  Tranfport  or  Carry  out  of  this  Colony,  any  Family,  or  Perfon  or  Perfons, 
lony,  without  that  have  not  for  the  fpace  of  ten  Days  before  their  Departure,  fix'd  up  his, 
a.  Certificate,  her  or  their  Name  or  Names  in  Writing,  in  fome  Publick  Place  ot  the  Town- 
Mitlcrtbe  Pe-  wherein  they  Refide,  and  of  their  intent  to  Depart  the  Colony  ;  and  that 
Founds,  ^e  fame  be  Certified  under  the  Hand  of  an  Affiftanr,  or  Jullice  of  laid 

Town 


Anno     Regni  Kegit     Gulielmi     Tertij     Decimo    Tertia.  47 


Town,  under  the  Penalty  of  Forfeiting,  to  and  for  the  Ufe  of  the  Colony 
fifty  Touads,  in  Money,  to  be  Recovered  by  the  General  Treafurer,  upon  due 
Convidlion  thereof,  in  the  General  Court  of  Trials. 


«<>  be  it  Enacted  by  the  Authority  aforefaid,  That  the  Afllftant^  or  Juftice, 
that  (hall  give  fuch  Certificate  as  aforefaid,  fhall  Tranfmit  a  Copy 
thereof,  to  the  Naval  Officer  in  Viewport,  who  (hall  keep  a  fair  Regifter 
therepf,  and  of  the  Time  of  Departure,  and  of  the  Mafters  and  Veflels 
name  wherein  Tranfporteu  ^  and  Ihall  be  paid  Twelve-fence  for  the  lame 
by  the  Perfon  or  Per  ions  defiring  to  be  Traniported. 

LAWS 


Made  and  Pad  by  the  General  Aflbmbly  of  His  Majefties  Co 
lony  of  Rhode -Ijland)  and  ?r evidence-Plantations,  &c.  Held  ad 
Warwick,  the  Twenty  Ninth  Day  of  Ottoter*  1701. 

AN    A C T,  in   Addition  to  an  Ad,    for  Preventing  of  Clau- 
deftine   Marriages  •   And   alfo  for  the  Regiftring   of  Mar 
riages,  Births  and     Burials. 


BE   it  Enatted  by  the  General   Jjjembly,  and  by  the  Authority  of  the  fame, 
That  all  Perfons  in  this  Colony, tha:  are  Defirous  to  be  joyn'd  together  ., 
in  Marriage,  fliall  make  their  Application  to  an  Afliftanc  or  Juftice  of  J^JJ^J *' »• 
the  Peace  in  the  To  v a,  where  fuch  Perfons   re fpeftively  Dwell,  who  out  due  fiX 
lhall    give-    them    a   Writing    under    his  Hand    and    Sea!,    Declaring    their  fiat  ion. 
Intention  of  Murriage,  the   which  drill   be   fi>c  up   in  lome  Publick  Place  of 
the  Town,  wherein  fuch  Perfons  refpedwely  Dwell,  for  the  fpace  of  fourteen  Puil;cat;ont 
Days  i  and  that  if  any    Perlon  fliall    have    any    lawful  Objection  to  make  may  \e 
againft  any  Perfons  fo  Pubiiflied,  being  Married  ^  He  or  She  ihall,  and  may  ""'* 
by  leave  of  any   AfUftant,   or  Juftice,  CTY.  of  fuch.  Town,    underwrite  fiich 
Publication,.  He  or  She     firft   giving  to  fuch    Affiftant,  Sufficient  Bond  to 
Refund  all   Damages  that  (hail    accrue   thereon. 

ssfnd.  it  is  further  Enatted,  by  the  Authority  aforefad,  That  all  perfbnS 
that  fliall  go  to  be  Married  in  another  Town  then  which  they  were  Publifted, 
fhall  produce  to  the  Officer  to  whom  they  apply  themfelves  to  be  Married, 
a  Certificate  of  their  being"  duly  Publifiied  as  aforefaid  •-,  and  that  if  any  perfbns 
ihalJ  come  into  any  Town  of  this  Colony  to  be  Married  from  any  other 
Government,  ihall  produce  a  Certificate  under  the  Hand  of  the  Authority 
lawfully  Impowered  thereto,of  1'uchGovernment  where  they  relpe&ively Dwell, 
that  they  have  duly  Complied  with  fuch  Laws  and  Orders  as  are  in  fuch 
Government  in  force  for  Publication. 

P  z 


Regn:  Rfgif     C/nlielmi  Tertji  Derinio  Tcrtio. 


csfxrl  he    'it  [,,rtl-(r    Pitted,    That  if  any  Afiiftant,  Juflire  of  (he  Poxo-,  Or 

','!'•-  in!1'       \Vai\L>n  in  this    Co''»ny,  fliall  prefuroe    to   Joyn    together   in    Murriii^   ::uv 

MJirrairf       per  Ions  that  have   not:    been    Publiflied    as    a  tore  fa  id,    or    any  pi'iir.n  whole 

J'erfaut  Lot      Publication   hath  been    lawfully    under-wriricn,       and   the     Impediment:    HOC 

/Wv  riil/lifaj.  removed  \  fuch  Officer  fo  OiVending,  -ihall  tin-  the  fir  ft  Offence    Forfeit    fiv: 

MM***     C^a».ij  in  Money,  to  the  Ufe  of  the  Colony  ',  and   for  the  .Second  Olffiitv, 

/«/«•«/  Ffve    T"1  I'J'.ttids  in,  Money,  to  and   for  the  Ufe  atorefaid,  to  be  recovered  by  the 

Pounds,    7;;.;General  Treaturer,  in  the  General  Court   ot    Tryol?',  up.m  due  Conviction 

fa-  i.'n  •  fecou/f,  thereof,  and  for  the   fame  fliall  be   Sutbended  iVom  his  Oflke. 

Ten  Pounds, 

SuffcnJcJ.  zAnJi   be  it    further   En.-tfted   by    the    j4utln>r'ity    itfircfriJ,      Tliat    whoH)cver 

fl\al)  prei'ume  ?o  be  Married  without  duly  proceeding  as  by  iliis  Ad  is 
Per.  required,  and  thereupon  ihall  Coluibit  together;  the  per  Ions  fo  OiVendint--, 
iA  befng  duly  Convicted  thereof,  Ihall  for  fuch  Otfence,  Forieii  l-\vt  Toutidtvi 
"Fh-c  Pounds  Money,  to  and  for  the  Ufe  of  the  Colony,  and  flr.ll  bo  recovered  by  the 
&c.C  'General  Treafurer,  upon  Con  vidion  thereof,  in  the  General  Court  of  Try  a  Is, 

or  fliall  fuller  Three  Months  Impnlbnment,  or  be  Corporally  Puniihed  by 
Whipping,  at  the  Dilcretion  of.  the  Judges  of  faid  Court,  not  exceeding 
Tliirty  Nine  Stripes  each. 

And  be  it  further  Fnattcd,  by  the  Authority  aforefald,  That  tJ:e  nbcvefnid 
Aft  ft  nil  be  no  ways  conftrued,  deemed  or  taken  to  extend  to  any  perlou- 
that  Jhall  be  lawfully  Married  according  to  the  Laws,  Cuftoms,  TJliige  i>\A 
Ceremony  of  the  Church  of  England.,  as  by  Law  Elt.ibliihed  ^  nor  to  tlioii.- 
people  called  Quaker^  that  fliall  duly  be  Married  according  to  the  A<51  of 
Toleration  allowed  tnem. 


be  it  further  En.tfied,  That:  nil  M.irriages  On  11  be  Recorded  in  the 
Town  where  they  are  Confuinmated,  and'  the  Ailiftanr,  Juflire  or  Warden, 
{hall  return  the  Name:-;  of  thole  they  Marry,  sr.d  when  Married,  into  the 
Town  Clerk  within  Three  M.Mithi  after  the  Confum.rvniion  thc^of  ,  and 
fhall  Pay  to  the  Town  Clerk,  Three-pence  for  the  Rcgiftrng  thereof  ;  and  h- 
ihall  be  paid  Three  SlrilinPi  for  the  fame. 


And  belt  further  En.&td  ly  the  Authority  af»rer,iJ.,  That  a"!  Rirthf  .'ir.d 
MflltUi  Burials  of  all  Children  .fliall  be  Regiftred  'in  the  Town  Clerks  Office  in  the 
flrKcw^  fame  Town  where  they  happen  to  be  Born  or  Dye,  by  the  Parents  of  fuch 
flintim  "children  as  ihall  be  Born  or  Dye,  as  aforefaid,  within  Two  Months  Time 
*IPO  Months  aj-Ler  ,-ke  Birch  or  Burial  thereof  }  for  Regiftring  of  each,  the  .  Town  Clerk 
Hme;a»tbt  fhall  be  -j  fmr.jfnce^  by  the  Parent  of  fuch  Child  or  Children  :,  and  that 
T*!c7ve-  v/hofoever  fliall  Refufe  or  Negleft  fo  to  do,  fliall  for  every  Months  Negleft 


Pence  per      a^er  faid   TW»J  Months  is  Expired,  Forfeit  Twelve-pence  per  Month,  to  and  for 
Alpmth,  for      che  ut:-  cf  fuch  Town  }  to  be   recovered  upon  Convidtion  thereof,  in    any 
t  of  Becnrd,  by  dw  Treafiirer  ot  dud  Town, 


Anno     Kfvni     P.rimo      AKK^E     Reginas.  49 

"LAWS 

Made  and  Pad  by  the  General  AfTembly  of  -this  Her  Majefliej 
Colony  of  Rh0Je-Zfla*J,  and  Providettce-PlantatiMSi  &c.  Held  ac 
Viewport,  the  Sixth  Day  of  May,  1701. 

AN    A  C  T,   for  Preventing  the  Inhabitants  of  this  Colony, 
from  Concealing  or  Harbouring  Vagrants,  Runaways,  £sfc. 


w 


Defies  ftam  ffir  tjMajefttes   Servicr,  its 

T^itnatvay  Ptrfnu^  often-time^  come  into  fins  Colony,  and  are 
fr«juent!y  Entertained  by  the  Inhabitants  of  this  Colony,  WKhaut  the 
of  the  ^Authority  in  the  fame- 


For  the  Preventing  Whereof  for  the  Future, 

E    it     EnA&ed     fy     tkr     General      Jffembly,    and     ly     the     tsfutbority  ^  Mjrf 

~ 


BE    it     funded     by     the     General      Jfffemvlf,    and     vy     the     ^utborit*.' %•  r  r -i- 
of  the  fame,    That  if  any  Perfon   or  Perfons    Inhabiting     within     this  tant"to  £>' 
Colony,  fhnll    Entertain,  Harbour  or  Conceal  any   Stranger  not  being;  frta-n  ZX 
a  Known   Inhabitant  of  this  Colony,  above  the  Ipace   of   one  Week  •fef^  * 
without  Informing  fome  one  or  more  of   the   Affiftants  or  juftices   of  fuch  nxU^f 
Town  thereof  ,  the  peribn  or  perfons  Offending  therein, being  duly  Convl&ed  Pounds. 
hereof,  {hall  Forfeit  Five  Pounds  in  Money,  to  and  for  the  life  cf  the  Town 
vhere  fuch  Offender  Dwells,  to  be  recovered  by  die  Town  Treafurer  of  fuch 
Town,'  together  with  the  Incident  Cofts  accrueing  in  the  General  Court  of 
Tryals-,  ami  if  fuel i  Offender   have   not  Sufficient  Eftate  to  Pay   the  fame, 
;l»at  then  it  fijall  and   may  be  in  the  Power   of  the  Judges  of  faid  Court,  to 
punifh  fuch  Offender  by  Whipping,  at  their  Difcretion,  not  Exceeding  Thirty 
Nine   Stripes. 

AN  Aft,  for  EftaBKftnng  and  Regulating  the  Afleffing  and 
Collecting  fuch  Rates  and  Taxes  as  fliall  at  any  time  here 
after  be  AfleiTed  and  Levied  on  the  Colony,  and  all  fuch 
Rates. ai  (hall  be  AfieiTed  on  the  Several  Towns  in  the  .lame. 


BE  it    Enatted    by    fbe    Qtnernl    Aftfrnvl'i,    dnd   ty    the    nAutlioritj     cf  the 
fame,  That:   from  time  to   time,  and  at  ail  Times  hereafter,  as  often  as 
»he  General  Alterably   of  this  Colony  fhall  Order  and  Enaft  any    Rates  to 
de  AirefTed  &  Levied  on  the  Inhabitants  of  this  Colony,  the  Recorder  of  the 
Soiony  tor  the  time  bt-ins^fliaB  forthwith  fend  a  Copy -thtrrcof  under  the  Seal 

Q.  of 


5°  ts4nno  Regni  Primo   ANN./E   Reginos. 


of 


the  Colony,  to  the  General    Trenfurer  for  the  time    being,  who  upon   the 
»«W«r  Receipt  thereof    fliall  lend  an  Exaft  Lift  of  each  Towns  part  to  the  Town 
.iCo.    Clerk  of   each  Refpedwe    Town,    together  with  a    Warrant   to   each   and 
ibc  A-it  every  of  them.,  requiring  them  to   Notify    the  Rate-makers    or   AfTeiTors  of 
k     each    R<-'rPea5ve    T°wn  '•>  to    Affefs  and  Apportion     the    fame,  on  the  ln- 
the     habrants  of  faid  Town,  according  to   the  time    tpecified    in    laid     Act    of 
Ttea.  Aifembly  i  and  the  Aifeirors   or  Rate-makers  of  each  Town,  or  the   MrJor. 
part  of  them,  fhall  Ten  Days  before  they  Artels  or  Apportion  the  lame'  fee 

rV  U?  tW°  Kotificat:I°ns  under  their  H?nds>  Requiring  the  Inhabitants  of  their 
feffats  to  A}.    Town,  to  bring   into   them   in  Writing  under  their  Hands,  an  Exaft  Lift  Of 
feft  tic  fame.  their  Rateable  Eftate,  by  fuch  time  as  is  therein  prefixed;,  who  are  hereby 
fafovtto       required    to    give,  their    Engagements  thereto  }   and  the  AiTeHbrs  or  Rate- 
2£!o£pt*of     Bakers   are  hereby   fully    Impowred  Co  take  the    fame,  in    the  following 
their  Katca-    Engagement. 
lie  Eftjte,  up- 
on  Engage.       TtT  0V  A.  B.  do  on  your  Solemn    Engagement,  hereby  7)tclare,  that  the  Account 

Tk'form  of  1  *"*  Lifl  °fy>*r  7^teai>lf  Eftatf>  h  }°u  to  :ts  ?r  fated,  is  a  True  and  Ju& 
the  &wapL  Account  of  the  whole  of  your  Rateable  Eflnte,  <«  you  know  of,  and  is  in  your  C.ITC 
tntjtt.  And  cuftod'h  And  this  you  Declare  to  be  the  Truth,  and  nothing  but  the  Truth,  won 

the  Prril    of  the  ^entity   of  Perjury. 


be  it  further  Enatlcd,  That  whofoever  (ball  Refufe  or  Negleft  fo  to 
do,  in  cafe  he  be  over-rated,  ftall  luve  no  remedy  for  the  fame. 


\>e  it  further  En.iftcd  by  the  Authority  tforefaid,  That  the  afore&id- 
Affeflors  or  Rate-makars,fhall  forthwith  upon  their  Afteffing  and  Apportioning 
of  any  Rate  or  Tax,  to  them  committed  to  Affefs,  fend  and  return  a  true  Bill 
or  Lift  thereof  to  the  Town  Clerk  of  fuch  Town,  to  which  they  refpe£ively 
to'fend^Jx  belong,  under  their  Handstand  the  Town  Clerk  (hall  upon  his  receiving 
fate  Bill  to  thereof,  draw  an  Exacfc  Copy  thereof,  and  fend  the  fame  to  the  General 
Get***  Treafiarer  under  his  Hand  Indented,  and  upon  Receipt  thereof,  the  General 
4nd  I*  a  Copy  Treafurer  haA\  HTue  forth  his  Warrants,  to  the  feveral  Conftables  of  the 
to  tl>e  Treafv-  Refpe&ive  Towns,  Commanding  every  of  th«m  in  Her  Majefties  Name  to 
rer,  aim  u  to  Colleft  and  Gather  the  feveral  Sums,  as  to  them  is  feveral ly  Committed  in 
^anji/0^t!'  Money,  by  fuch  time  as  by  Law  is  Required  5  and  when  Gathered  and 
for  tbe'cou'  Collected,  the  lame  to  bring,  and  pay  into  him,  or  to  his  Succeilbrs 
Uttwg  thereof,  in  faid  Office, 

AT^D  be  it  further  Emitted,  That  if  any  Conftable   or  Conftables,  (nail 

refufe  or  neglect  to  do  the  fame  as  aforefaid  }  that  then  and  in  fuch  Cafes, 

VpmvegltS    the   General    Trealurer   fliall    recover  the    Sum  againft  fuch  Conftable  or 

tfCtii'fting,   Conftables,  as  ftaH  be  defective  therein,  by  A&ion  of  Debt,  at  the  General 

lav  rccovtitd.  Court  of  Tryals,  to  be  brought  at  any  time  before  the  fitting  of  fuch  Court, 

together  with   die  incident  charges  accruing  •,  and  the  Defendant  or  Defen- 

dants,fliall  have  no  Elfoign,Proteclion  or"  Wager  of  Law  allowed  him  or  them. 

Any  Law,  Cuftom  or  Ulage,  to  the  contrary  hereof  notwithftanding. 

AND  the  General  Treafurer,  fiiall  be  allowed  him  Six-  fence  per  Pound, 
for  Receiving  and  Paying  out  the  fame :  And  Affeflbrs  or  Rate-makers  fhall 
be  Paid  Shilling!  £aeh,  for  -Apportioning  thereof,  and  the 

tr."I°Ltf*     Town  Cferk  for  Copying  the  Rate  Bill,  according  as  for  other  Copies  ;  and 

&6$  ior  ColJ&ing,  fhall  have  frrtlvt-ptnfe  per  Pound,  all  the 

faid 


Secundo    ANKSL    Reginss,  51 


{aid  Fees  to  he   paid  out  of  each  Rgfpettive   Rate,  as  it  iliall  be  paid  into 
the   General  Treaiury. 


be   if  further.    Enacted    ly     the    Authority  ttforeftid,    That   the     Town 
Clerk   of  ench   Refpefiive    To'-vn,   ihall  within  Ten  Days  alter  the    Eleftion 
and  Engagement  ot    the  Conftables.  of  the  Town  wherein  he  dwell?,  fend  *Ti*  T0*n 
Lift  oftheConftables  lb  Chulen  and  Engaged,   unto  the  General  Ti^lbiarjjJ^jJg^ 
of  die  Colony   for  the  rime  being  i  and  char  if  any  Town  Clerk  ihall  V^kAjUtht  N^Kti 
the  fame,  he  "dial  I  Forfeit  fjrty-  Spittings  for  every  Gtfence,  to  and  for  the  Ufe  tube  Gw.-.! 
of  the  Colony,  to  be  Recovered  by  the  General  Treafurer  tor  the  time  being,  T^furer. 
upon  Complainc  made  before  any  Court  of  Record  in  the  Colony, 

v4nd  be  it  further  Enaflcd  by  the  Authority  aforefaiii,  That  all  Town  ^"h  %?-'rfei 
Rites,  that  Ihall  be  Levied  on  any  Town  in  the  Colony,  fliall  be  AifefTed^,^  cl^S^f 
and  Collected  in  the  fame  manner  and  form  as  the  Colony  Taxes  are,  and  at  the 
the  Town  Treafurer  fiial!  have  an  Action  of  Debt  againft  any  Delinquent, 
Conft:ib!e,  or  ConfVn'.es,  ns  the  General  Treafurer  hath:,  wherein  no  Eftoigq, 
Protection  of  Wage:  ot  Law  ihali  bs  allowed  the  Detendaut. 

LAWS 

Made   and  I'aft     by   the    General    AfTembly   of    Her    Majefties 
Colony  of  Rhofl'e-Ifland,  and  Providence-Plantations,  &c.  Held  at 
ffeivforfj  the  Fourth  Day  of  January^  170^. 

AN   ACT,   for  Levying  of  a  Duty  on  Tunage   of  Shipping, 

WHEREeSfS  the  Colony,  hath    been  at  A  great  Charge  to  "Sutld  etnd  Ere  cl  A 
Pert  o»  Fort'Ifland,  for  the  Security  of  the  Skipping  *a&  NavtgAtior,    of 
the  Cohny. 

For    the  better    keeping    di«    fame     in    Repair, 


BE    it  Eaa&td  by  the  General   ^jfemblv,  and  by  the  ^/(uthority  of  the 
That  there  ihall  be  paid  by  the  Mafter  of  every  Ship  or  other  Veflel, 
ot  above  Ten  Tons,  coming  into  a»y  Pore  or  Ports  in  this  Colony  co  Pence 
Trade  pr  Traffick,  which  are  not  wholly  Owned  by  the  Inhabitants  of  r°" 
thi?  Colony  •,  every  Voyage  fuch  Ship  or  Veffel  doth  make,7Wwpcw<  per  Ton,  °^ 
or  one  Pound  of  good  New  Gun  Powder,  tor  every  Ton  fuch  Ship  or  Veifei  "" 
Is  in  Burthen  by   Reeifter  ',    to    be   paid  to  the  Naval  Officer  of  the  Town 
of  2^/jppflrr,  to  be  Employed  ty  and  for  theufeor.   the  Fort  oji  Fort-  Ijlajtdr 


PROVIDED  always,  and  ic  is  the  true-  intent  and  meaning  hereof  ^  that 
this  Act  fkall  not  extend  to  malic  ajiy  Mafter  or  other  Veifel,  Pay  Twelve- 
ytnce  per  Ton  or  one  Pound  of  Gun  Powder  for  any  greater  part  of  fai<i 
.Ship  or  VeiTel,  than  what  iliall  not  be  owned  by  any  Inhabitant  of  this  Colony. 

Ar-d,  ift  it  furtbtr  EnnQsA  by  the  Authority  afcrel'rftt,'  That  no  Mafter  of 

Q.  s. 


52  Am*  ••  T^jgai   'Secuudo     ANNvE     Regince 


•any  Ship  of  Veffel,  foall  Sail  from  out  of  the  Harbour  of  '.A£f  irpwr,  without 
firil  producing  to  the  Gunner  of  fa  id  Fore,  a  Certificate,  from  under  the 
Hand  of  the  Govenmur,  or  Deputy  'Governour,  that  he  hath  complied  with 


aby 

by    the    Fort,    without    proceeding  as  aforefajd,  that  then  and  in  fuch  Cafes 

the  Gunner,  /hail  Ufe  his    utmoft  Endeavour  to    ftop   fuch   Ship  or  Veffel, 


,  ,  , 

or  Deftroyed  thereby,  the  Mafter  of  fuch  Ship  or  Veifei,  fhail    make  good  all 
Damages   that  {hall   be  Suftained  thereby. 


AN  ACT  Prohibiting  Negroes  and  Indians  from  being  abroad 
at  unfeafonable  times  of  the  Night,  and  for  Punifhing  thofc 
that  (hall  Entertain  them  contrary  hereto. 


WHEREAS  diver;  'Thefts  And  'fybberies  have  bctn  Committed  in  the  Tfyght 
time  by  Negroes  <mA  Indi?ns,  within  (his  as  a>c!l  at  in  the  Governments 
adjoining  •,    For  preventing  reherscf, 


B 


E    it  EtutSttA  by  the    general    tsffferrtblf,    and-  by    tkf    Authority  of  the 
.  _    fame,  That  if  any  Degrees  or    J?idians,   Freemen    or  Slaves,  (hall    be 
w  Iodians"o  J--J    found  Abroad  after  Nine  a  Clock   at  Nitrhr,  at  any   time   throughout; 
le  abroad  af-  the  Year,    without  a  Certificate  from  their   Matters,   or   fome    other    Engliflt 
ter  Nine  at      Per f-m  of  the  Family  to  the  which  he,  i'he,   or  they  belong,  or  fome  lawful 
Excufe  for  the  fame'-,  that  then  it  ihall  r.iul  may  be  lawful  tor  any  Perfon  or 
Perfons  to  Take,  Sei/.  and  Secure  die  fame  till  next  Morning,  and  then  bring 
them'  bis  fore  an  Afiiftanr;,  or  Juftice  of  the  Peace   of  fuch  Town,    who   ft  all 
upon  due  proof  thereof,  caufe  faid  Negro  or  Negroes,  Indian  or  Indians,  to  be 
OnttiePe-      pub!ickly  Whipt  at  the  Publick   Whipping    P.oft   of  fuch  Town  where  fuch 
WKppivg        Offence  (hall  be  Committed,  not  exceeding  fifteen  Stripes,  unlefs  their    incor 
rigible  behaviour  deferve  more  -,  and  the  Perfons  fb  Convifted  if  Freemen, 
fnall  pay  the  Charge  of  Profecution,  &c.  and  if  Slaves,  the  Owner  or  Own 
ers  thereof,  ftall  pay  the  fame  •,  and  if  the  Owner   or  Owners  of  any   fi?c?s 
Slave  or  Slaves  {hall  refufe  ib  to  do,  that  then  the  Affiftant.  or  Juftice,  &c. 
fh^U  Grant  forth  a  Warrant  of  Diftrefs  to  a  Conftable  of  faid  Town,  to   Di- 
it  rain  fo  much  of  his  or  their  Goods*  as  will  fatisfie  and  pay  the  fame. 

~s4ad  bt  ft  further  Enafted  fa  thf  Authority  tforefnttJ,   That  no  Houle-keeper 

ihal!  Entertain  any  Slave  or  Servants,  either  Indian  or  Negroes,  after  Nine  a 

ZtaffM/ii  any  Clock  at  Night,  as  aforefaid,  without  the    Owner   of  faid  Slave  or  Servants 

Indians  w       leave;    and  whofoever  ihall  be  Convicted  of   fuch  Offence,  before  any  Aifift- 

Ncgross.        ftnt)  or  Juftice  ot  the  T^eace,  f>r.    fhall  for   tvery  fach  Offence,  forfeit  Five 

On  the  rtn.il.  Shili;ngS)  :n  Money,  to  and  for  the  ufe  of  the   Town  where  fuch  Offence    fhall 

ShUlin"7.       fce  Committed  j  and  if  the  perfbn  offended,  fhal!  refufe  to   pay  the  lame,    it 

fhal)  be  recovered  l:y  the  Town   Tre:»iurer  ot    fuch  Town,    upon  due  proof 

thereof  before  any  Affiftent  or  Jufticd  of  the  Pe&ce  in  rnanr.er  as  aforelaid. 


Reffni     Tertio1     ANN/E     Regans. 


LAWS 


Made   and   Paft  by   the  General    Affernbly     of  Her 

Colony  of  Rhode-  Ijland,  and  Providence- P Ian t  attests,  &c.  Held 
at  Proviaence,    the  Twenty   Fifth  Day  of  Qclolerj  1704. 


AN    ACT  Preventing  of   Damage1  to   be  done,    by    Firing    of 
the   Woods   in  any  Town  in   the   Colony. 


WHEREAS  great   'Damage   has  bttn    done    to  fever  4  of  the   inhabitants  of 
this  Colony^  by  their   Hay,  Fencer,   &c.     by  Firing  of  the  Woods,,  at  un- 
ftafenable   Times    of  .the  Year. 

For     the      Preventing     Whereof, 

BE  it  Emitted  by  the  General    jjffembly,  and   by  the  Authority  of  the  fa»itt 
That  no  Per(brf  v/h  ufo'ever,  fhall  fee   any   Fires,    or    cavrfe  any  Fires  to  ^,,e  toa,e 
be   let  in   the    Wen  Is,  in  any  p.irc  of  this    Colony,    on    any    time  of  the  Woods,  hut 
Year,  lave  betwe.-rc  the  Tench  of  March,  and  the  Tenth  of  May,  Annually  -,  *«nwi  tSt 
nor  on  the  Firft    or    Seventh    Day  of  any'  Week,  during  faid  time,    under  jfaTc'h  an 
any  pretence   whatfoever  •,  and  tBat  whofoever  fhall  be   lawfully  Convi^fed  oftleT 
doing  the  fame,  before  anv  two  Affiftants,  or  Juftices  of  the   Peace,  &c.  of  May. 
luch  Town  where  fuch  OiFence    fhall  be    Committed,    either    by   their   own  Outfit 
Oonfeffion,  or  by'  tlie  Evidence  of  Two   Witneffes  upon  Enga'geraent,'    ihall 
Forfeit  Thirty  5W/i»gt  in  Money,  to  and  for  the  Ufe  of  fuch  Town  j  and  if 
the  Perfon  or  Pedons  fo  ConvjSed,  refafe  to  Pay  the  .-ferae,  that  then  fuch 
Affiftants,  or  Jufticeg,  &c  lh$\]  Grant  forth   a  Warrant  of  Diftref?,  to   any 
Conftable  of  faid  Town,  to  Diftrain  fo  much  of  the    Offenders  Goods  and 
Chattels,  as  IhalT  Satisfy   and  Pay  the  iame,  to  the  Ule  aioreiaid  ;    and  ail 
Incident  Charges  thereon 


AND  that  whofoever  jhall  fafTer  any  Daniages  by  rcafon  of  fjch  Offence  as  ^njtjit  j*^ 
aforefaid,   ihall   have  an    Adtion   .-f  Trafpafs    upon   the  Cafe,  againft  fuch  ty  ngnwU 
Offender  or  Offenders,  and  fliall  Recover  his  Damages  and  Colb  accordingly,  *A»%,>J 
if  under  Forty  Shillings*  before  anv  Two  Affiftants  or    Juftices  at  fuch  Town  "™*'ljie 
where   fuch  Offence  fliall  be  Committed,  and  it  above  Forty  Shillings,  in  the 
General  Court  of  Tryals. 


Regni  Quarto   ANNjE   Reginaj. 


AN    ACT  for  the  Prefcrvation  of  Deer,   within  this  Colony. 


Wff»«,  : 
trtAt    ' 


tnany  Tfrfons  ?<wfy,  Kill  and  Veflroy  Deer  at  wifcafonable 
times,  when  the  Skins  and  t'lifl)  are  of  little  or  'r.u  Value,  which  may  be  of 
great  Prejudice  to  the  Colony,  and  kinder  Their  Increafe, 

For   the  Preventing  whereof  for    the  Future, 


B 


it   EnaEled  by    the   general  t/fflembly,  and  ly  the  Authority  of  the  fume, 
That  no  Perlon  or  Perlons  whatfoever  within  this  Colony,  fhal!  from 
and    after    the  Firft   Day  of  January  in  this  prefent   Year,  unto  the 
------  laft  Day  of  June,  in  the  Year  One  Thoufand  Seven  Hundred  and  Five, 

i    andri>e*~  an<^  between  the  faid  Firft  of  January,  and  the  iaft  of  June,  Annually  for  ever 
laft  of  June,    hereafter,  Kill  and  Deftroy  any  Deer  or  Fawn,  on  the  Penalty  ofFofeiting 
On  the  penal-  Twenty   Shillings  for  every   Deer  or  Fawn  fb   Killed,  upon  Conviction  thereof 
*y  «h-n-Wen"  Before  a"y  Affiftanr,  or  Juftice  of  the  Peace,  &c.  of  iuch  Town  where  fuch 
ty  Shillings.  offenre  Jhal)  be  Committed,  the  one  Half  to  the  Informer,    and  the   other 
Moiety  to  and  for  the  Uie  of  the  Town,   to  be   Levied   by  a  Warrant  of 
Diftrefs,    from     fuch    A.Oiftant  or    Juitice,     Directed     to   a    Conftable  o£ 
faid  Town. 


L   A .  W  S 


Made  and  Pad  by  the  General  AiTcmbly  of  Her  Majefties  Colony 
of  Rkode-  Ijlandi  and  provitk*ce-Pia*tatimst  &c.  Held  ar 
tfewfort,  the  Second  Day  of  May,  170?- 

AN  ACT  for  fecuring  of  Cods  to  the  Inhabitants  and  Rcfidcnts 
of  and  in  this  Colony,  that  (hall  be  Arreftcd  by  any  Perfou 
that  are  not  Inhabitants  and  Freeholders  in  the  lame- 

BE  it  Entered  by  the  (jener.tl  Affemblj^nd  by  tljt  tAurhority  of  t»e  fane,  That 
no  Per  ion  or  Perfons  whaLlbever,that  is  not  an  Inhabitant  and  Freeholder 
GJwnfole     ia  £his  Colony,    fcall  have  out  of  the  Recorders  Office,    any  Writ  of  Arreft, 
4>rejlei,  lint    or  Summons,'  Rgainft  any  Perfon   ox   Pevfons  Inhabit  hit;  or    Refiding  in   the 
Prettnt- 


i™e[itlx        profecuf-ion  of  fuch  Suit,    or  if  fuch  A&ion  fhall  be  Koii-.Suit,  orcaftupon 
Tryal  ;    Any  Law  or  Cviiiom  to  the  contrary  hereof  notwitljftanding. 

AN 


i     Quinto    ANN£L    Regtnse, 


AN  ACT,  Eftablifhing   a  Notary  Publick,  within   this  Colony. 


B 

Publick 


£  It   EnatttA  \>y   the  general  t/tffembly,   and  by    tlit  t^Jutlvoriij  of  trie  fame,  face*  fa  to 
Tliat  the  General   Recorder  of  the  Colony  for  the  time  being,  fnai!  b.t-  " 


Caufes 

by  Law  Requi 

ihail  take    the   following  Fees,  and  no  more. 

t  *  d 

TO  Swenring  to    Proteft.                                                              co  03  Oo 

To    Drawing  Ditto.                                                                   cc  03  oo 

To    Sealing  Ditto-                                                                               oo  03  r^ 

To    Regiftring  Ditto  in  the  Office                                                   oo  o?  Oo 

To  Copy  Ditto.                                                                        oo  03  oo 

LAWS 


and    pad  by   the  General   Aflembly    of   Her    Ma 
Colony  of  Rhode- Ijlwel  and  Providence-Plantations.     Held  a5 
Provii/fMCf,  the  Thirtieth  Day  of  Qftober^    1 706. 

AN  ACT   for  Extending  Eaft~Grcenwc&  Townfliip   Weft,  ro 
the   Colony  Weit  Line. 


WHEREAS  The  Tomfrip  of  Eaft-Greenwich  it   wry  final!,   itnJt  there  it, 
A    'Tratt  of  Land  Lying  IVcft   of  faid  Tojonjkip,    very    Camnadiput   to 
Enlarge   the  fame. 

BE  It   i  her  ef are    Ettartsd  by  theCftmr.il  jijfembly,   itud    by  the    ^Authority    (/wich/ofit. 
the  fame,  That  the  North  and  South  Bound    of  Eii&-Gretm»ick  Town-  i^iri 
ihip,  being  Run  due  Weft,  from   the  South  Weft  and  North  Weft  corners  of1*? 
laid    Townfhip,  to  the  Colony   Line,    and    all   the  Land  therein    included,    "*' 
(hall  be,   and    is   hereby  Annexed,   to    be  part   of  the   Townfhip  of   £*#- 
Greenwich,  and  the    Inhabitants  that   are  already  fettled  thereon,  or  that  ftiall 
hereafter  fettle  thereon,  fhall  have  the  lame  Liberties  and  Priviledges,  as  the 
ocher  Inhabitants  ot  Eetft.Grccnir'tcb   have-  and  Enjoy. 

R  r  Laws 


Anno     T\jgni     Quinto     ANNjE     Regiiuc. 


LAWS 


Made  and  Paft  by  die  General  Aflenibly  of  Her  Majefties  Colony 
of  ' Rhode- Ijlanrf)   and  Providence-Plantations.     Held  at 
the  Twenty  Fifth  Day  of  February ',   1706. 


rAN   ACT    for  Regulating  of  Tanners,  Curriers  and  Cordwaincrs. 


°f    "Deceits    and     t^bufes    by    Tannin,     Curriers, 

Snuom.'.kers,    and   Workers  up    of  Leather, 


B 


E  it  Enabled  by  the  (jenerat  jlffcml'ly  of  Her  Jtfajeflies  Colony  of 
Rhode-Ifland,  and  Providence-Plantations,  .and  by  the  i^futhoritv  of  the 
fame.  That, no  Perfbn  or  Perfons  whatfoever,  Ufmg,  or  which  (hail 
^Se-iUd  ^^  ch~  Myftery  or  Faculty  of  Tanning,  fl;ali  at  any  time  or  times  here- 
Isfaie  Sold,  after,  put  to  Sale  any  kind  of  Leather,  which  fhall  be  Infufficierit'y  Tanned, 
or  which  hath  been  over  Limed  or  burnt  in  the  Limes,  or  which  fhall  not 
have  been  after  the  Tanning  thereof,  well  and  throughly  Dryed,  or  that  fhall 
not  be  Sealed,  as  in  and  by  this  Act  is  hereafter  Directed  ?  upon  psin  of 
Forfeiting  the  whole  Side  or  Peice  of  Leather  fo  pffered  to  Sale  ;  and  no 
Perfon  or  Perlbns  whatfoever,  Ufing,  or  that  fhail  hereafter  CMc"  the 
Myftery  or  Faculty  ofTanrtingJnal!  fet  his  or  any  of  their  Fatts  i»  Tahn-hills, 
or  other  places  where  the  Woo/e  or  Leather  is  put  to  Tan  in  the  fame, 
fhall  or  may  take  any  unkind  Heats,  nor  fiiall  put  any  Leather  into  any  Hoc 
pr  Warm  Wooze  whatfoever  i  on  pain  of  Forfeiting  Twenty  Paunds,  for 
every  fuch  Offence- 


be  it  further  Enattcd  by  the  Authority  aforefaiJ,  That  no  Perfon  or 
Perfons  whatfoever,  Ufing,  or  Occupying,  or  that  fhall  hereafter  Ufe  or 
Ko  Currier  Occupy  the  Myftery  or  Faculty  of  Currying,  may,  or  fhall  Curry  any  kind 
*?  r^"""  of  Leather,  except  ie  be  Sealed  as  is  hereafter  Provided  :,  nor  fliall  Curry  any 
they,  or  u'l.  Hides,  not  being  throughly  dried  after  his  wet  teafon,  in  which  wet  fealbn,  he 
ied.  fhiil  m:  Ule  any  ftile  Urine,  or  any  other  deceitful,  fubtile  Mixture  of  any 

thing,  way  or  means  to  Corrupt  or  Hurt  the  fame  :,  or  fhal)  Curry  any  Leather 
Wet  for  outer  Sole  Leather,  without  any   other  thing   then   Hard    Tallow, 
nor  with  any  lels  of  that  then  the  Leather  will  receive,  nor  fhall  Curry  any 
ory  Leu.       kind   of  Leather,   meet   for  upper  Leather,  and  Inward  Soles,  but  with  good 
Msr  fcmld       and  fufficient  Stuff,  being,  Frefh  not  Salt,  and  throughly  Liquor'd,  till   it  will 
It  Cwned.       receive  no  more  ;  nor  (hall  burn  or  icald  any  Hide  or  Leather  in  the  Currying, 
but  (hall  work  the   fame-    fufEciently  in   ail  refpecls  and  points,  on  Pain  of 
Forfeiting  for  every    fuch  offence  or   Act  done,  contrary   to   the   true   intent 
and    meaning    hereof,  every    fuch  Hide  marr'd  or  hurt  by  his  evil   Work- 
or    Handling. 


And 


QuiiltO     ANN/E    Regin>o.  57 


And  be  •  it  further  EnaQtd  \>j  the  Authority  afortfaiJ,  That  no  Per  foil  or  %?£$* 
Per fons,  Ufing,  or  ilia  11  hereafter  Ufe  or  Occupy  the  Myftery  or  Faculty  of  Tar.,,'<l,  k-r. 
a  Shoemaker  or  Cordwainer,  ill  all  work  up  into  Shoes  ,  or  other  Wares,  3ny  at  afaefaij. 
Leather  that  is  noc  Tanned  and  Cur 
made  of  Korfe  hides  for  inner  Sole* 
of  all  iuch  Boots,  Shoes  or  other  Wares 

And   for  die    more  Effectual  Execution    offaid  A<5t 


t/^ZVT'D     be     it     further      Enacted     by     the    Authority     tftvefnidj     That.    <*•>'/ ,-c,v  ,v.,',j!<j 
Leather  that  is  or  fnaN  be  Tanned  or  Curried,  fhall   before  the  fame  pafs  put  t^ ^  ^..j. 
of  the  TannereV  or    Curriers   Yards,   Hbules,  or  Places  Reflectively   where  it 
was   wrought,  be  Viewed  by  Sworn  Searchers  or  Sealers  of  Leather,  by    Lav? 
directed  j  to  be  Annually  Cholen  in   iuch  Towns  where  there  fhall  be  need, 
who  fliall  have   two   leveral  Marks    or  Seals,  to  be  procured   by  each  Town 
for  that  purpote,  with  one  of  which  they  fhall  Sea!. all  fuch  Leather,  as  they 
fhall    find  lufriciently   Tanned  in  ail  relpects  sis  aforefaid,  and  with  the  other 
a1.!  fuch  Leather  as  they  fhall  find  well  and  fufticiently    Curried,  as  is  before 
mentioned,  and  no  other. 

AND    the  Shearchers  and  Sealer?,{hall  and  are  hereby  Authonz'd  ?nd  Iiri- 
power'd,  tx,  Ojficio,  to    make   Search,  and    View   in   all    refpe&iye  Places   o.r^"1^-  ^ 
'Houfes,  Shops,  VVare-houies,   or  other  places,    within    the  Limits  ot    their ^"^T^ 


Curried  according  to  tlie  afotfecited  Act,  and  the  true  latent  and  meaning 
thereof,  or  (hall  find  any  Leather  in  whole  Sides,  out  of  the  PoiTeilion  of 
the  Currier,  not  Sealed  with  the  Mark  or  Soul  to  be  Uled  lor  Leather 
well  Tanned  or  well  Curried',  in  all  l"uch  Cafes}  it  {trill  and  may  be  lawful, 
for  th£  Searchers  and  Severs,  to  Seize  all  fuch  Leather  Inturricient  or 
'Unified,  whether  it  be  wrought  up  into  Wares  or  not  ^  and  it  the  owner 
o\  challenger  thsreot,  lhall  not  tubmic  to  the  Judgment  of  the  Officer  or 
Officers  that  Siez'd  the  fame,  Licli  Officer  or  Officers  fhall  retain  fuch  Leather 
in  his  or  their  cuftody,  till  I  ryal  thereof:  be  had,  us  is  hereafter  directed, 
and  Judgment  thereon.  ffi»  to 


IN  fuch  Cafes  the  Officer  or  Officers,  flpll  within    four    Days  after    fo 
Seizure,  Int«rm    f'ome  juftice  of  the.   Pence    in-faid'Town  thereof,  who  flball  *'**'• 

thereupon  appoin  t  four  Perfonp,  or  more  honefl  skilful  Men  in  Leather,  to 
View  the  lame  in  the  owner  or  claimers  ot"  Iuch  Leather's  presence, 
or  without:  him  (  if  having  notice  thereof  he  dfih  not  appear')  to  reporc 
to  any  Juftice,  the  defeat  which  they  find  in  laid  Leatlier,  whicli  Report 
the  laid  J  u  (tice  fhall  return  unto  r!ie  nextGeneral  Court  otTryals  for  thejaid 
Colony,  tor  a  Convittiun  in  JLaw  on  the  Fine  Impofed  ^  but  .in  Cafe  the  Viewera 
Jhall  Report  that  they  do  not  find  Iuch  Leather  or  Wares  ib  Seized  in  any 
refpecls  defective,  according  to  the  jnrcnc  of  this  Acl,  the  [uftice  thac 
appointed  iuch  Viewers,  fh;iil  caufc  the  f;ime  forthv/ith  to  be  discharged  from 
the  Seizure,  made  by  lujh  OiHccr  or  Oiiicers. 

A'j'.'c  Co  rcfij 

t^^nd  be  it  farther  Enacted  ly  the  Authority  aforef.iid,    Th.r.r  no   Perfc.>n  wliatfc)  "''6-  •^/"'«'-r»* 
e^er,   iliall    or    may    •.vichfland.  or    refill     the  Searcr.ers     and    Sealers    in  the  ^  '*  ''"*• 
Execution  of  their  Oifice,.  nor  in  the  Searchiuu  ibr  any  InfufHcienc  Leather  nrir"i  piv*^ 


A>m<i     %  tgni     Qujnro 


Wares,    upon   tlie    Forfeiture  of   five  'Pound;    ior     every    fuch    Offence. 

AND  the  Fee  for  Searching   and  Sealing  of  Leather,  {hull  be  One-penny  per 
Feet  for  Seal.  J3ide,  for  any  parcel    leis  then -Six  Hides, "and  for  all  other  Parcels,  if  by  the 
Dozen,  then  Ei^ht-pencc,  .which  Fees  the  Ts.nr.er  or  Currier  fhall  Fay  on  the 
Sealing  thereof  from  time  ro  time,  and  fhall    nlib  pay   Tbree-ftnce  per  Mile, 
for   every   Mile  any    -Searcher   or   Sealer   fhal)  Travel   above  on  Mije. 

AND  na  Searcher  or  Ser.ler  of  Leather,  {hall  rfufe  within  convenient  time 
to  do  llis  Office,  nor  ihall  allow  any  Leather  or.  Waies  which  are  not  fuffi- 
lu  cient,  on  the  Penalty  of  forfeiting  Forty  Shillings,  nor  fhall  take  any  Bribe,  not 
DL.-I  on  the  exad  more  than  his  Fees,  on  pain  of  Forfeiting  the  Sum  of  Jen  Poundt,  for 
tsmltytf  eve  fuch  offence. 
Forty  Shil. 

be  it   further  Enaftcd   by  the  Authority  aforcf.iirl.    That  all  frch  Finer 


Ufe  of  faid  Town,  where  the  Offence  fhall  be  committed  j  and  the  other 
third  to  the  Seizer  or  Seizers  of"  fuch  infuffkient  Leather,  or  to  him  or  them 
as  fhall  Inform  and  Sue  for  the  fame-,  to  be  recovered  by  Aftion,  Bfll,  Plaint, 
or  Information,  in  any  General  Court  of  Tryals  within  the  Colony,  or  before 
any  two  Juftices  of  the  Peace,  when  the  matter  doth  not  exceed  Forty  Shil 
lings. 

Ank  be  it  further  Entftcd  ly  tkr  tsJutkority  afgrefitid,  That  when  and  as 
often  as  any  Leather  fhall  be  Seiz'd  in  the  Hands  of  either  Tanner  or  Cur 
lier,  and  become  forfeited  by  virtue  ot  this  Aft,  through  their  default,  and 
if  belonging  to  any  particular  perlbn,  the  Tanner  or  Currier  {Kail  be  liable 
to  make  fatisfa&ion  to  the  Ownec  thereof  for  the  fame  :,  to  be  recovered  in 
any  General  Court  of  Tryals,  or  before  any  two  Juftices  of  the  Peace,  if  the 
.value  do  not  exceed  Forty  Shillings. 

AND  for  the  afcertaining  of  which  value,  the  perfons  to  be  appointed  as 
aforefaid,  for  viewing  the  defe&s  in  Leather,  (  fhall  when  the  fame  is  Seiz'd, 
for  being  marr'd  and  fpoyl'd  by  the  Currier  or  Tanner)  through  his  ill 
VVorkmanfhip  or  handling,  be  alfb  appointed  to  Eftimate  and  judge  the  value, 
thereof  and  make  Report  of  the  fame,  together  with  the  Defe&s. 

fo  Chtff  ti^nd  be  it  further  JLnaHed  by  the  Authority  Aforefad,  That  each  Town  in  the 

&arcle>s  and  Colony,  fhal)  at  their  Town  Ele&ions,  Annually  Chufe  two  Sealers  and  Search- 
Seaiersof      £f$  Qf  j  eather,  who  fhall  take  -their  Engagement   to   the    performance   oi 
their  Office,  as  other  Town  Officers  do. 


Anno     Rfgni     Quinto     ANN/E     Reeinse.  59 

An     ACT,    Stating  the   clue   Aflize  of  Bread 

Etery  Bakff 
i  E  it  Enatted  by  the  Central    Ajfembty,   And    hj  the   Authority  of  the  fame,  ^rffij.'*, 

That  henceforth  every  Baker,  {hall  have  a  diftmct  Mark  for  his  Bread,  .1  dijUnff 
_..„„  lie  ihall  Bake  and  Sell,  which  he  fhall  Scamp  thereon,  arui  ihall  keep  the  »'•«*,  andtn 
due  Ai'fize  hereafter  EspreJfed,  on  all  forts  of  Loaf-  Bread   that  he  fhall  Bake,  f*  J"^*1 
to  Weigh  by  Averdupo'/.e  Weight,  as   is    hereafter  mentioned,  according  to  ^ 

the  feveral  Prices  of   Wheat  by  the  Bufhel,  as  is  hereafter  let  down. 


Price  of  IVke.K.  Of  Penny  White  Loaf.  Of  Penny  Wheaten.    Of  Per.ny 

i,  d.  o.c.  dr.  o;-'  dr.  oz..  dr. 

At     3  o  ii  4  J7  2,  23  co 

3  6  Jo  2  J$  3  20  04 

4  9  oi  o  13  7  18  20 

4  6  o3  3  12  $  16  04 

5  7  co  5  ii  4  J>  05 

5  6  07  i  10  5  14  oa 

6  o  06  4  09  7  13  or 

6  6  c6  o  09  o  12  co 

7  o           05  6  08  5  ii  04 
760?  2             08             i              10              04 

8  5           07  o  04  4  10  oo 
S           6           04  6             07             i              09             04 
90           04  4             o6<>             09             oo 

And  fa  proportionably,  Under  the  penalty  of  Forfeiting  all  fuch  Bread,  as 

fhall  not  be  of  feveral  AfTizes,  as  is  afore-mentioned  ^    to  the   U!e  of  the 

Poor  of  fuch  Town  where  fuch  Seizure  ihall   be  made,  and  otherwife  as  is 
hereafter  mentioned. 


be  it  further  Entitled  [y  the   esfutkurity  afarefaid,   That  the  Town-Coun 
cil  of  each  refpecVive  Town  in  the  Colony,  where  Bread  is  Baked  for  Sale,fhall  fj)e  j^* 
Once  a  Month,  Enquire,  State   and  Record  the   middle  Price  of  Wheat,   and  Council  to 
caule  the  fame  to  be  made  known,  by  letting  of  it  up  in  fome  Publick  Place  of^«  '** 
laid  Town  •,  and  the  Bakers   fhall  accordingly  Regulate  the  Weight  of  »heir  ?riee  of 
Bread,  after  the  Aflizes  betore-mentioned.  '  '"'•- 

AnA  be  »r  jurther  Enxttcd  by  the  Authority  <J/iirr/IrrW,That  in  every  Town  in  the 
Colony,  where  Bread  is  Bakeu  for  Sale,  there  faall  be  Chofen  one  Clerk  or  the  <*CI**  of 


Market,  or  more,  as  each  Town  fhall  find  needful,  at   their  Annual   Eledion  t!je  '  Ah'ke* 

of  Town  Ofricers,  who  iliall  duly  be  Engaged,  to  the  faithful  performance  of  (J^         "* 

fjiid  Office,  as  other  Town  Officers   are  }    and   fuch   Clerk  or  Clerks  of  the 

Market,  fhall  once  a  Month,  or  oftner,  as  he  fhall  lee  caufe,  enter  into  any 

Shop,  or  Place  where  Bread  is  Sold,  or  Ba'ken  for  Sale,  and  weigh  the   fame  } 

and  all  fuch  Bread  as  they  fhall  find   under    the  AfSze  afore-  mentioned    or 

nor  marked,  he  or  thcv  fhall  make  Seizure  of,  and  two  third  parts  thereof 

fhall  deliver  unto  the  Town  Treafiiry,  to  and  for  the  ufe  of  find  To.vn  ;,   and 

the  Officer  fliall  have  the  other  third  for  his  pains  therein;    and  the  Confta- 

ble  or  Conftables  of  fuch  Town,  are  hereby    Required,  to  aid  and  sflift  the 

Clerk  or  Clerks  of  the  Marker,  in  his  or  their  Executing,  of  his  or  their  Of 

fice,  when  and  ib  often  as  he  or  they  fhall  be  thereunto  Required. 

S   2  L'«t\VS 


6o  cslnnu    f.cn'i     Nono   ANN7E  Reinse. 


LAWS 


and  Pafl  by  the  General  AfTemMy  of  Her  Mnjcftics  Colonv 
of     PhoJe-  ffanft,   ami    Providence-?  lactations.       Field  at 
y  rhc  Third  Day  of  May,    1710. 


want  o*  Silver  ^faney,  this  Colony  without  jonie  extraordinary.,  means  he 
vfed  for  the  rffcfl'ing  the  lame,  wo:ild  he  unable  to  perform  •  for  Remedy  rrherc- 
of}  and  the  jpeedj  procuring  and  Equipping  out  (ill  things  neceff.iry  for  the  fame, 

£  rt  therefore  Enacted  by    the  (jeneral   tsfjfcmbljf   of  this  Cotony,  axJ  by   the 

I     jdut'iurity  ofthejltme,  That  there  be  with  all  expedition,  Printed  to    the 

Firs  Tin/-  value  ot  Five  Ttiwfand  Pounds  in  Bills  of  Credit  on  this  Colony,  as  follow- 
r^'.^'o?'5  eth'  vix"  One  J'houfand  Pounds  in  Five  Pound  Bills,  One  Thou  fund.  Pound  in 
'  Three  Pound  Bills,  Five  Hundred  Pound  in  Forty  Shilling  bills,  Five  Hun- 

dred  Pounds  in  Twenty  Shilliivx  Bills,  Five  Hundred  Pounds  in  Five  Shilling 
Bills,  Five  Hundred  Pounds  in  Two  Shillings  and  Six- penny  Bills,  and  Five 
Hundred  Pounds  in  Two  Shilling  Bills  :,  which  Bills  to  be  Printed  as  afcre- 
faid,  ftiall  be  in  value  equal  to  current  Silver  Money  of  Nnv-Ftglaad,  in  aH 
Fubiick  Payments,  and  lhall  have  the  Anchor  and  Hope  affixed  in  the  Scutch 
eon,  with  fuch  other  Impreflions,  as  fhall  be  thought  heedful  by  the  Com 
mittee,  in  this  Aft  hereatter  .Named,  which  lhall  be  in  the  manner  foUowing. 


-rraoF     r~T^HiS  Indented  'BUI  of  'Due  from    the  Colony  ef  Rnode-Ifland, 

JBiSi.  J^     a"<i  Providence-Plantations,  in  New-England,  to    the    *Ptfftflvr    thereof, 

foall  be  in  tau.nl  value  to  Monty t  and  flixll  be  accordingly  accepted  by  the  "frca- 
direr  and  Receivers,  fubardinate  to  him  in  all  .Publick  'Payments,  and  for  any 
Stock  at  any  time  in  the  'T^eafury.  Newport,  Auguft  i6th.  1710.  By  Order1 
of  the  (jeneral  j4ffimblyt  for  the  Colony  above-faid. 

AnA  be   it  further  Etiatted  by  the  Authority    aforefaid,     That    the    aforefaid 
Committee  BMS  of  Publick  Credit  lhall  be  Signed  by  Lieutenant  Colonel  John  Wanton, 
i*tbt      Lieutenant  John  Odlin,  Major  f^atkanicl  Sheffield,    Major    Jofeph   Jencks,    Mr. 
John  Cooaejhall,  and  Mr-  Job   Cjrccn,  or    by  anv    three    of    them,     who    are 
T.:ie  frits  as     jjereby  appointed  and  impowered  to  Sign  t!:e  fame,  and  de-liver  them    unto 
jSS/M*»the  General  Treafury  ;  which  Bills  are,  and  ihal!  be  received  and  paid  for 
IjtxttfttiL  '  the  (ame  value,  and  equal  to  the  current  Coin    pa  fled  in  this  Colony,  for 
Goods,  or  any  other  thing  .Bought  or   Sold  in    all  Payments    to  be    made 
whatloever  }  Specialties  only  excepted,  for   and  during  the  fpace  and  time 
of  five  years  enfuing.  the  pate  hereof,  if  the  General    Aifembly    fhall  then 
lee  caule  to  Call  them  in  j     and  when   called    in,    the    Fofleifur    of   fuch 

Bills, 


'Xjgm     None    ANNJE   Keginse.  6 1 


Bills  flirtll'be  Reimburs'd  the  Sum  mentioned  in  fuch  Bill  .or  Bills,  in 
Current  Money  of  faid  Colony,  by  the  Genejal  Treafurer  hereof :,  and  the 
fame  fhnll  be  Levied  and  Col lefted  by  Ad  of  Alterably,  and  duly  Apportioned 
on  the  Inhabitants  of  each  Town  in  the  Colony. 

LAWS 

Made  and  Pnft  by  the  General  AlTcmbly  of  Her  Majeflies 
Colony  of  Rhode-IjlanJ^  and  Providence '-Plantations^  &c.  Held  ac 
Providence,  the  Twenty  Fifth  Day  of  Ocloler^  1710. 

AN  ACT,  for  Preventing  Counterfeiting  of  the  Bills  of 
Credit  Emitted,  or  that  lhall  be  Emitted  by  any  of  the 
Governments  of  New-England^  and  to  prevent  Dfaceing  of 
rhe  fame,  &V. 


BE  ,'t  Enacted  l>y  tl.-e    General   A/ftmbl^  and  fy   the  Authority   of  the  fame,  77,,. 
That  whofoever  fhall    Forge,  Counterfeit  or   Utter,  any   Bill  or  Bills,  tr  Px/tr  of 
(  knowing    the  lame  ro  be  talfe  and  counterfeit  )  of  the  Tenor,  or  in  *?'?""/"* 
Imitation,  of  any  of  the  Biils  ot   Credit,  Emitted  by  this  Colony,  the  Province 
of  the  M«ff*chu}ctis-'Bay,  the  Colony    of  Ct».>ncfticut,  or  the   Province  of  N(rv-  xijb 
Plamffrire  by  Law  Eftabli/hed  therein  ;  or  that  fhall  Co«nfel,Advile  or  Procure  V'L, 
the  fame  in  any  waysibv  Forghitr,Coutiterfeitine,l.Ti printing  orSi^nmg  any  fuch  ^ 
falfe  Bil's,  or  make  or  Inerave  any  Plate  or  other  Inftrument  for  that  purpofe  ifa      /* 
or  that  fhallAlter  or  Increafe  anvFigureor  Sum  in  any  Bills  of  CreditEmitted, 
or  that  fliall  be  hereafter  Emitted,  by  this  or  any  other  Governments  as  afore- 
faid,'  or  that  fliall   Forge   or    Counterfeit,  any  Kame,  Hand,  Stamp  or  Mark, 
that  now  is  or  hereafter  fhall  be  made  or  (et  thereon  :,  the    Perfon  or  Perlb'ns 
fo  Offending  therein,  ihall  Suifer  the   Pains  ot  having  their  Ears  Crops,  being 
Whir/d  or  Fined  at  Difcretion,  and  ImpriKmed  as  the  nature  of  the  Offence 
Requires,  by   the  Judge*  of  fuclr  Court,  where  fuch  Offence  (hall    be  Tryed, 
and    fhall  pay    double    Damage,  to    the  Perf  >n  -or    Perlbns    Defrauded  and 
Cheated  by  fuch  Falfe  Bills ;    and  in  Cale    fuch  Offender  or  Offenders,  have 
not  Eftate  fafficient  to  defray  the  charge  of  their  Pruiecticion,   Imprifon-nent, 
and  double  Diimages  as  aforefaid  •,  that  then  and  in  luch    Cafes,  the  Offender 
or  Offenders  there  in,  (hall  be  let  to   work  or  Sold  for  any  terra   of  Years,  for 
fatisfaftion  of  the  lame,  at  the  Difcretion  of  the  Judges  of  fuch  Court;  where 
fuch    Offence    fh<Ul  be    Tryed. 

T  AN 


Ams     T^cgnt     Nono     et     Decimo     ANN&     Res^inx. 


AN   ACT,   for  Impreffing   and    Emitting  one  Thoufand  Potwds  in 
Publick  Bills  of  Credit  on  this  Colony. 


One  ThotJ-  .• .  —  ._,, .., 

fand  Pounds  that  tiie  Five  Ihoufand  'Pounds  or  Credit  formerly  Emitted  by  this  Colony 
Imprinted  in  WGrKi)  and  they  lhall  be  Signed  by  the  fame  Committee,  pafs  in  all  Payment? 
£-.Ut  oj  Cre.  whatfover,  as  the  other  Bills  afofefajd,  already  Emitted  by  this  Colony  do. 

LAWS 


Made  and  pad  by  the  General  AfTembly  of  Her  Majefacs 
Colony  of  Rhode -Ijland,  &  Providence-Plantations,  &c.  Held 
at  Ne wport,  the  Twenty  Seventh  Day  of  November,  1710. 


FOR&d$MVCH  At  the  Bills  of  Credit  already    Emitted  by  thi;  Colony,     are  not 
fujKcient  to  fatisfy    the  'Debts,  Created  by   this  Colony,  in  the  late   F.i'peelttion 
undertaken  againtt   Annappolis-Royal,  in  purfudnCe  to    J-ftr  Majesties  Command, 
whereby  many  'Perfons  are  very  great  fujferers,  and  fsveral  lite  to  be  T^jtined  thereby, 
and   there    not  being  fufficicnt  Silver  in  the  Colony,  to   anfjver  the  fame, 

BE    it    therefore  Enafted     by    the  general   ^4Jfen>bly,    and   by   the    Authority 
thereof,    That    there    be    forthwith    Imprinted    and     Raifed.      One 
Thouf*nd  founds  in  Publick   Bills  of  Credit  on  this  Colony,  and  that 
wan  /,„.  they  be    Signed  by  the   former    Committee,  and  pafs  in  all  Publick 

ffiatfj.         Payments,  as  the  former   Bills  of  Credit  do  and  have  done, 


LAWS 


Made  and  Pad  by  the  General  Aflembly  of  Her  Mnjcfties  Colony 
of  Rhode -I(land,*nA  Providence-Plantations^  &c.  Held  at  Newport, 
the  Twenty  Eighth  Day  of  J-une,  1711. 

AN   ACT  for  Settling  Cofts  at  the  General  Courts  of  Tryals. 

BE  it   Eiafttd  by   the   Cjenfral  eslffembly,  and  by    the  Authority   of  the  fame  t 
That  whoever  ihall   Recover   the  Laft   and  Final  Judgment  of  any 

Matter, 


Rcjnl     Deciina     ANiS/E     ReaniDc.  5  3 


-.it.   ts 

Matter,  'Caufe  or  tiling,  that  fiiali  be   Heard  ?nd  Tryed,  at  rhe  General  »e«>«r 
Court  of  Trvals,  ih;ii1  'Recover,'  Have  and    Receive  all  Cofts  that  fhall   b*  J& 
Taxed,  during  the  tending  of  any   fuch  Suit.     Any  former  Cuftom  or  Ufage'a' 

to  the  Contrary   herdof  notwichftanding. 

AN    ACT,  for  the  raifirtf  .if  Six  Thcufahcf  Pounds.,  in  Bills  of  Credit. 


BF    jf    TLnfitt'rd    tv   the  Cjtntr.il    JIJfembtift  #n<l  ly  the    Atttkffity   or  the    f.iri<-, 
That  .there  be  flirthwith  imprinted  and  Railed,  the  Sum  ot'iix  Tbevfmd 
Pounds  of  Pub'ick    l>  i!s   ot  Credit  on    this  Colony,  hy    the  fontier  Committee  Six  Thotr 
that  Signed  and  Finiihed  the  former  Bi'i?.  They   are  hereby  tully    Impowred  'and  Pou 
to  MalTe,  S'LV.I,  and  Finifli  the  fame,  in  .the  fame  Furm  as    the    former   Bills  ^"!!'etl ",' 
werevA'liichBills  when  Signed  and  Finifhed.che  iaidCc.'mmittce  fhall  deliver  into  ^  i//ft^ 
(he  General  Trcaliiry,  ro  and  for  the  Uie  of  thisCo!ony  j  and  fh^ll  pals  in  all  Csiaty. 
Payments  as  the  Bills  ot  Credit  already  Emitted  by  this  Colony   do. 

LAWS 


and  Pad  by  r!-,c  Geiicral  Aflembly  of  Her  Majeflies 
Colony  of  Rhode -JJlaxtf  and  Fro-viftencc -Plantations,  £c.  Held 
at  Wnrwick)  the  Fourteenth  Day  of  Novetnter,  1711. 

V 

AN  ACT,   for  Imprinting  and    raifmg  Three  fltutdrvd  Pound*  in. 
Bills  of  Credit  on    the   Colony. 


BE    it  En-tcifdhy  the  general  e/fifimbtv,    and  by  the  Authority  of  the  fame,  Three  Hun- 
That  there  be  forhwlrh    Imprinted  and  Railed,    the  Sum  of   Three  rfjfcfl 
Hundred  'Pounds  of  Bilis  of  Credit  on  this  Colony ,in  the   fame,  manner  Credit 
nnd  form,  as  the  former  Bills  of  Credit  were,  the  which  Bills  fhall  be  Signed  tea> 
by  the  ftid  Committee  ;  and   fhall  pals  in  payments,   as  the  current  Com  in 
this  Colony   doth,  Specialties    only   Excepted. 


T  a  Laws 


*/4nno    Rcgni     Decimo   ANNJL  Reginx. 


L    A    W    S 


Made  and  Pad  by  the  General  Aflembly  of  fier  Majefties  Colony 
of    Rhode-ljlatid    and     Tro-uidence-PlantationSy      &c.     Hel'd  at 
t,  the  Twenty  Seventh  Day    of  February  ,    1711. 


AN   ACT  for  laying  a   Duty  on  Negro  Slaves  that   ihali 
Imported  into   this  Colony. 


WHEREAS   the-,  twinging  of  T^jgroes    into    ibis     Colony,    difcovragn     tbt 
Importing    of   White  Servants  herein,   and    may   in   lime   provt    Prejudicial 
to  the  Inhabitants^  if  not  timtly   difcauragtd. 

BE  it  therefore  'Eftafted   ly  the   general   tx^/ftwt/y,    and  fo  >  fee    Authority  of 
the  fame.  That  every   Mafter  of    any  Ship  or  V'eliei,  ..Merchants  or 
others,  that  fhall  Import  or  bring  into'this  Colony ,any  Negro  Slave  or 
MI  netrro  Slaves,  of  what  age  foever,  mail  enter  their  Number,  Names  and  Sex, 

SljM/im.  in  the  Naval  Office  i  and  the  Mafter  fliall  Infert  the  fame  in  the  Manifeft  of 
^witrf  into  his  Lading,  and  lhall  pay  to  the  N:ival  Officer  :v,  T^firpT,  Three  Toujidt  per 
'fa&ir$'  f°  ^ea<^'  to  ar"d  f°r  tn6  Ufe  of  the  Colony,  for  every  Negro  Slave,  Male  or 
3:1  tie "N.KSI  Female>  f°  Imported  or  brought  in  :.  and  ii  any  Mafter  or  Merchant,  fhaii 
Office.  jrefufe  or  neglect  to  pay  the  fame,  by  t3ie  Ipare  of  Ten  Days,  after  furh  Slave 

or  Slaves  fhall  be  Landed  in  this  Colony  \  that  then  the  Naval  Officer  on 
knowledge  thereof,  fhall  Recover  the  fame  by  Aclion  ot  Debt,  irt  the 
General  Court  of  Trials. 

And  be   it    further    Enatted,    That    if  any    Mafter  of   any  Ship,  or   other 

Merchant   or    others,  fhal;  Refuf*    or    Neglcia    to    make  Entry  as  afoiefaid, 

pounds         Pf a11  Negroes  Imported  ir.  fuch  Ship  or  VeJfel,  or  fhall  be  Convided  of  not 

facli.  Entering      the    lull  Number  of    fuch    Slaves  as   fhall  be  Imported  ^  He   or 

They  fo   Offending,   fhall    Forfeit  and  Pay    die  Sum. of  Six  'Tmind*  per  Head, 

lor  every  one  that  heihall  Refufe  or  Negleft  to  -make  Entry  rtf  ^  one  Moiety 

tiiereof,  to  and  for  the  Ufe  of  the    Colony,   and    the    other     Moiety    to 

him  or  them  that  fhall  Inform  and  Sue  for  the  fame. 


!  be  it  further  Enxtttd  ly  tbs    Authority   nforefiluL  That   whofbever  (hall 
bring  into  this  Colony,  may  Negro  Slave  or  Slaves  from  any  of  Her  Majefties 
""jie     Governments  adjoyrting,  either  by    .Water  or    Land/fh^ll  in   like   manner 
al>       Enter   their  Number,  Names  and  Sex  in  the  above  fa  id  Office,  under  the  like 
>iy  Six          Penalty  as  abovefaid,   to  be  Recovered    as  aforefaid  :  and  ihal)  Pay  into  the 
JS  fjr3     Naval  offict*     the  like  Sum   of  Three  founds  per  Head,    for  every  fuch  Slave 
c-.-ei-y  'one  fo     fo  brought  in,  within   the  time  of  Ten    D;iys  as  above    fpecified,    and  for 
entitled.         default   of  Payment  thereof,  to   be  Recovered    by    the  Nuva!    Officer,  in 
manner   as   aforefaid.  pfo. 


Anno  -  T^tgni     Decimo    ANNLt    Regin*.  65 

PROVIDED  always,  that  if  any  Perfon  whoP  ^ever  is  net  Refident  in  this  TJ>*  >7  «# 
Colony,  and   fhall    only    pafs    through    the  lame  with  a   Waiting  Man  orJ^SfJ^ 
Men,  dV.  and  Jhall  not   Refide  herein  for  above  the  fpace   of  5>ix    Months.  f!!r;fj  fr^Zfr 
then*  fiich   Waiting  Man  or    Men,    &c.  fliat!  be  free   from  the    aboveiaid  />w»  Africa. 
Duty,  i'uch  Perions.  giving  their  folemn   Oath,  .that  they  .are  not  ior  Sale. 

A'H'D  it  if  further  provided,  That  no  -laufe  or  claufrs  in  the  a'~>refaid 
A&  fhall  be  Conftrained,  Deemed  or  taken  to  Extend,  to  any  Mafter  or 
Mnfters  ot  Ships  or  other  Ve<kls,  that  Ihall  Import  Negroes  in  this  Colony,  . 
dire&ly  from  the  Coaft  of 


E 


Fees    for    rife     Naval    Officer. 


. 

Very  Slave  Imported,  to  be  paid  out  of  the  Impoft  co     05     OQ 

Entering  Maniteft,  to  be  paid  by  the  Mafter.  oo     01     oo 

An     ACT,  to  Prevent  th<i  Spreading  of  Infectious  Sicknefs. 


WHEREAS    Cimtagious    Diftempers  have  betr  fevtral    th.tes   Ircught    into 
this    Colon},  by   the  Masters  of  Ships,  and  other   Veffielj,  cnmttig  into  t\jt 
Several   Pcrts   of  this  Colony,  jrem  TUces  th  .t  are  Infilled   therewith. 

tor  the  Preventing  whereof  for    the  Future, 


E  it  Enei&ti   by,  tttt  General    Affembl^   and    by  the   ^utbc^ity  of  the   faint, 
That  no  Mailer  or  Commander  uif  any   Ship  or  orner  Veifel,  that  Jhail  ^.°  ?e'fa  ['-• 
!omc  into  any  Port  or  Harbour  of  chisColony,and  ih;i!l  in  their  Paifoge  hereto, ^fp£'%, 
have  any  Per  fon  or  Per  fans  Sick  on  Ship- board,  with   the  Small   Pox,  or  any  Bond,  or  tl-at 
other  Contagious  Difeafe,  or  Ihall  c^me  from  any  other  Port  or  Place  where  come  from  .vy 
any  Contagious  Diftemper    is  brief  or   prevalent,  ihall    not  bring   to  Anchor  ^.irf  Jntf"c* 
their    Ship  or  Velfel,  in  any  of  the  Ports  of  this    Government,  within    the  Tny'.miT&i-1' 
diftance  of  one  Mile  of  any  Publick  Ferry,  Pier  or    Land  in  a.  place  ;  or  if  any  -»/},  /„' 
Veffel  or   VefTelsthat 
or  PerJbns,  on  Board 
to  come  on  Board  'lu< 

•  ^  ft        I  »  l.-^tH 

Governour  of  this  Colony    tor  rhe  time  being,  if  they  dial!  Anchor   in  the  Licence 
Harbour  of  JXewport,  or  in  his  Abfence  from   one   or  more  Juftices  of  peace0'-"  t!lf  fe 
of     (I»id    Town,      and    if     they     Hull     Anchor     in     any    other     Harbour  CV^ -  9"^ 
of  this  Colony,  a  Licence    (ball  bo   fir  ft  h;ij    and  Obtairied  from    l;>rde  one  or  pounds. 
more  Juftices  of  the  Peace    of  Aich    Town,  under  the   Pt-naity  ot  Forfeiting 
One  Hundred  Pounds,  Good  and  lawful   Money  of   this  Cojony,    to  and  tor  (.he 
Vfe   of  the  Colony,  to  be  Recovered  by  the  General  Treafuier  of  the  Colony, 
in  the  General  Courts  of  Tryals  of  thi^  Cilmy^  by  Bi'3,  Plaint  or  I  nf.f  macron, 
and  where  the  Offender  or  Offenders  herein,  fhali  have  no  EiT 


ee&ion  or  Wager  of    Law    allowed- 


AT^JD  be  it   farther  Enatlcd   \>j  tkc  Authority  at'orf^ld,    That    if    upon    the 
Arrival  of  any  fuch  Ship,  or  other  Veifel    as  aforefaid,   in  any   Harbour    of 


V  this 


C6  An-m     Xj*<  •'/*'     Dec!  mo     ANN/E     Regime. 


th'S  C°'onV'  asaforefoid,  any  PafTen.^er   on    Board,    or    anv    Mariner   thereto 
/•;/:.  w      beltogmgj-fhall  and  do  cotf>e  on  Shore  or  Land  from   fuch  Veifei,  without  a 
Li.     a  Licence  firft  had  and  obtained  as  afbrefaid,  that  then,   and  in  fuch  Gifts,  ir 
ihall  and  may  be  lawful  for  any  Jullice'  of  the  Pence  ot  fuch.  Town,  where 
f"ch  Per(on  nncf  perfons  fliall  Land,  to  Require  and  Command,   and  lend    fuch 
perfon  and  per  ions  fo  oiFending,  on   Board   fuch   Veiiel  again,   or  to   Coimr.e 
'Forfeit  them  aihore  to  any  fuch  Place,  as  to  him  /hall  foshi  convenient,    for    to    ->r!j- 

Twenty  venr  the  fpreading  of  any  Jnfeftion  ^  and  the  porfon  or  perlons  fo  oft'end!.^, 
Ihatt  anfwer,  fatisry  and  pay  ail  Charges  that  fli-.il!  arife  thereon;  and  fli;iU 
Forfei!:  Twenty  Tu-v.^.f,  good  and  lawful  Money  ot"  laid  Colony,  to  and  for  the 
Ufe-bf  the  Colony,  to  be  recovered  as  aforefhid. 

And  if  the  Offender  or  OlFen-ders  have  not  Eftate  fufnVient  to  fatisfy  and 
pay  the  fame  ;  that  they  fhal!  be  let  to  Work,  by  the  dirt-it  ion,.ind  at  tl-.c  clif- 
crecion  o^  the  Judges  of  luch  Court  where  fuch  Caule  ihall  be  Trycd,  until 
the  lame  be  fally  fatisfied  and  paid. 

And  for  the  better   putting  this  Act  in  Execution. 

£e  it     Enacted   by  the  Authority  aforefnid,    Tl;at  the    Kaval     Ofricer   Hiall 

Iceep     this     Aft     ptiblickly  fet  up  in  his  Office,    tor  the  view  of  'ail    Mal- 

JToiT  tie  Ni^TS  ot   Ships,  and  other  VelTeis  that  fhall  Enter  v.'irh    him  i    and  the  laid  Ka- 

v.jl  Ojf.ccr  ii  '  val  Officer  is  hereby  Unpowered  upon  any   Iniormarion  unto  him  given  of  any 

to prcc<ed  up.  Ship  or  VefTel  Arriving;  in  this  Harbour,  that  hath  any  Infectious   Diftemper 

atbtfsmatt.    Aboard,  to  fend  on  Board  of  fuch   Ship  or  Veilel,  a  Doctor,  to  examine  tiie 

fame,  as  need  fliall  require,  and  return    thereof   to  the    Governour,    or    in 

his  abfence,  to  fome  of  the    AlTiftauus,  or    Jufiic^s    of   the    Peace    of  the 

Town  of  Newport  to  make  report,  that  due  care  may  be  taken  therein  •    and 

the  Matter  of  fuch  Ship  or  Veffel,  f!i;il!  p:j.y  :<!'  cliarces  i  rifinii  thereon  -,  sr.d  if 

he  refute  to  pay  the  (hme,  it  fliall  be  Recovered  by   the    JSaval  Officer  in   any 

Court  of  Record  within  this  Colony. 

And  be   it  Jurthtr  Enacted  by   the  Au'bcrity    ttfonfatd,  That:  if  notwitliftnn- 
cling  the  above-laid  Precautions  to  prevent  any   Infeftious  Dirtemper  from  be 
ing,  broughi:  into  this  Colony,  that  if  any  perlbn  or  perfons,  Paiiengers,  Ma- 
liners,  or  Slaves  fliall  be  Landed  from  on   Board  any  Ship,  or  other  Veife!, 
and  ftiall  after  being  Landed,  be  taken  Sick  with  the  Small-pox,  or  auv  other 
Infectious  Diftemper  ;  that  then  and   in  fuch  cafe,  it  fliall  and  may    be   law- 
«      c.fe        ful,  for  any  one  A/fiftant,  or  Juftice  of  the  Peace  of  any  fuch  Town  where 
ferfin  i^«n^uch  Caufe  fliall  happen,  to  remove  iuch    fick  and  diftempered  perlon  and  per- 
tv  be  Landed,  ions  to  fuch  convenient  Place,  as   fhall  to  them    appear  to  be   necelfary,  to 
a  Juflice.  &c.  prevent  the  fpreading  thereof ',    and  the  perfbn  or  perfons    fo    removed,   if 
Juchprfon,      ffee  to  Pay   the  Charge  thereof,    and  (hall   be  Recovered  in  any  Court  of 
atlitthinki     'lecord  within  this  Colony,  by  the  perfon  or  perfons  that   (hall    disburfe   the 
ft.  Jame^  and  if  the 'perfons  fo   removed  be   Slaves,  then   the   Owners  thereof 

{hall  pay  the  fame  j  and  if  the  Slaves  are  Configned  to  any  perfbn  within  the 
Governmentj  then  fuch  perfon  to  whom  Confined,  fliail  pay  the  charge  of" 
the  £»me,  to  be  recovered  as  aforefaid. 

AN 


Decimn     ANN/E     Resins.  07 


AN  ACT,    tor  Quieting  PofTdlions,  and  avoiding  Suits  at  Lavy. 


WHF.T(J£/1$  at  t!:e    f.'ft  Settling    of  tins    Ctlonj,  and  f?r  /Wry  fear;  e.f'tr- 
rpjfrf'j,  L.in.J<s    re  ere  of  little    or  no  f.tlue,    and    SkUfxt    i-JMt-.t  in   th--   Lars- 
\ecrt  much  wt-ttcd,  w'itirtvy  many  'Deeds,  (jr-a>;is  and  Conveyances  were  Tdntkiy  m.".dif 
ivhick  m.iy  Occift  n  Cjrejr  Cant  efts  in  Law,  if  nat  timely  prevented. 


BE  it  therefore  En.iclcdby    the   (jcncrat    t-^ffimbly,  a»J  by  the  Aut'ioriy  ef  ','.,( 
pw,Th.it  all  Grants,  Charcerr.,Pf-f)Sss,  Rights"  ;ml  3nv;iedj,es,  here;ofoje  . 
Granted  and  Given  by  the  General  AilVmbly  of  this  Colony,  unro  any  .f  .ivn,  « 
Corporation,  Community  and   Proprie:v,  And  to  any  other  Perf)n~cr   Pcribns,^  '•• 
ihnll    be,    and    tlicy  'hereby    are   Ratiaed   and    Conirir^ed  co    be    Goou  and 
ErFedu.il    to  all    Intents   and   Purp.Ues  in    the  Law,  fur    the    Granting   aiui 
Conveying   r.ll  fuch    Lands,     Tenements,    Charters,  Curporarions,  Privi  'edges 
as  is    therein    Mentioned,   to    the   PC  rib  us     therei.i  AkncioueJ,  and    their 
Heirs   and  AiTigns    for  ever- 


br   it  further    Enacted  by  the  cs4u:borlty  nfo'-:l'uii,    That    wheie  -my 
Per  ion  or  Perfon?,or  others,  from  vvhi  m  he  or  they  derive  their  Tide?,  cither  T<»nitiyca 
by  Therafelvcs,  Tenants,Leules,  Hath,  Have  or  ihall  by  the  fp;ice  ot.Twpnty/^^n" 
Years,be  in  the  Uninterraprsd,  Quiet,  P^a.-eable  and  A6tu^Seifi;i  and  PoileHio;!  '«•»*'  *^' 
ot   any  Land  or  Hereditaments  within  this  Colony,    for  and  during  the  ;aid 
tinv?,C  laiming  the  fame  as  his,  her  or  chtfir  proper,  tote  and  Rightful  Eftare  in 
Fee  Simple,  fuch  Actual    Se:fm  and  Pojlcfiion,  fh  itl  be  aUowed   to    give  .jnd 
make  a  Good  and   Rightful  Title   to  fuch  perfo'i  or  perfons,   tnelr  Heirs  and 
Aiflgns  for  ever  ^   and  this   Adi  beintr  Plea.ied  in  Bar  co  nnv  Action  that  fh;»ll 
hereafter  be  brought  for  fuch  Lands,  Tenements  or  Here>iu;tmen*s,  and  bc'ine 
duly  proved,  (hall  be  allowed    to  be    Good,    Valid  and  Eiieitua),  in  ciie  Law 
for    Barring     the     fame. 

PROVIDED,    that  nothing  in  this  Aft  flvTJ    be   Conftrued,    Deemed  or 
Taken,toEtC8nd  to  prejudice  theRights  ^r  Claimijof  fuch  Perfon«  under  A  e, 
ffart  Ccmpos  Mentis,  Feme  Coverts,  [inpriibntfd  or  bevond  Seas,  they    brinjiiiu  Fft"e  ^'t- 
their    Suit    there  for,    within   the    ipace  of   Ten  Ye.irs,     nesi:    atter    iuc.i  i-vc-  rAvr/« 
luipediment    is  Removed. 

AN    ACT,    for    Granting    Admimltrations     ro   the     vVivcs    of 
Pcrlons  Three  Years  abfcnc,  and    unheard    of. 


WHEREAS  many  tslferclwits     Mel    Mariners,   gci?ig     la  Set   c>: 
4re   often   (tlt/eii:    many  Tears    and    uahc.ird   of,   and   leaving  no 
ey    for  the    Receiving    of     Debts,    'J\j:nts   and  Trojits    of  thei 


, 
tt  'hereby  their  Wivet  and  Families  maj  faffcr. 


of 


63  tAnno    Krgni  Decimo    et   Duodecimo   ANN&  Reginx. 


For   the   Preventing    whereof  for  the    Future, 


BE  it   EnafteA  by  the   Cjencral  tsfffemlly,   and  by  the  tsfathoritj  of  the 
That  vvhofoever  hath  been  departed  or  fhali  dcp;irt  out  of  this  Govern- 
Jfxperfa      ineftt   on  a   Voyage  to    Sea  or    ocherways,  and    hath    left  an    Eftate  in  this* 
be  the?  yean  Government,  and  be  unheard  of  for  the  (pace  of  Three  Years,  next  immediate- 
abtent  mi;       jy  iUCCeedins  iuch  departure,   and  leave  no  Power  of  Attorney  with  his  Wjfe» 
frtfri-  to  Receive  his  Debts,  Rents  and  Profits  of  (uch   Eftate,  which  he  hath  within 
this  Government  ;  that  then    and  in  fuch   Gales,  the  Town  Council  of  fuch 
to  tin  Town,  where  Iuch  departed  Perfon  laft  dwelt,    upon  due  Application  to  them 
it''-e-  made,  by  the  Wife  of  fuch  departed  Perfon,  are  hereby  fully  Impowered  an& 

Authoriz'd,  to  Grant  Admmiftration.  to  the  Wife  of  fuch  departed  Perfon, 
Enabling  and  Impowering  Her  to  Sue  fot,  Recover  the  Debts,  Rents  and 
Profits  of  the  Eftate  of  fuqh  Her  departed  Husbnnd,forihe  Comfortable  Subfif- 
tance  of  Her  Self  andChi!dreu,ii  any  She  have,  until  Iuch  time  as  Her  departed 
Husband  ihall  Return  home,  or  fend  fufficient  Power  of  Attorney  for  the 
fame  •,  or  until  he  fhall  be  Adjudged  and  Deein'd  Dead  in  Law,  and  theii 
fuch  Her  Adminirtration  iliall  ceale  and  determine. 

LAWS 


Made  and  Paft  by  the  General  Aflombly  of  Her  MajcfticS 
Colony  of  Rhode  Ijlatrd  znA  Providence-?  fan  taritMs,  &c.  Held 
at  Newport^  the  Sixth  Day  of  May  y  1713. 


WHETtJZAS  Kinigret  the  Indian  S<tchemtin  the  Nan.t^z'nfett  Country,  »n  the 
TiveAly  Eighth  fDay  of  March,  1709.  did.by  an  Inftrumeut  under  his  Hani 
and  Seal,  Covenant  xnji  Agfte  with  the  Cjovernour  and  Company  of  this  Colony,  that 
they  fiould  hitve  the  ovt'fii'at  and  care  of  his  Lands,  &c.  and  that  be  would  not 
Sell,  or  ffire  out  any  of  his  Lands,  without  their  confeni,  approbation,  under  she 
Penalty  of  forfeiting  fuch  Lands  by  him  Sold  and  Hired  :,  and  notwithstanding  which 
fever  at  evil  minded  'Per  fans  far  the  Lucre  of  Cjain,  ha-ye  Craftily  and  Dtfigned- 
ly  Cheated  the  fad  SttJWuB  of  fame  of  his  Lands,  and  of  th:  T  refits  <>f  his 
tj,  fc  that  he  has  not  Sufficient  to  maintain  Himfelf  and  People  up»n. 


BE  it  therefore  Enattcd  by  the  general  j4j]emkly,  and  by  the  Authority  of  the 
[omit.  That  all  Deeds  of  Sale,  Deeds  of  Mortgage  and  Leafes  of  any  of 
**":  's;  ^5:  faid  Ninigret's  Lands,which  have  been  by  him  mad«'and  Granted, fince  the  fitid 
S«c?jiBC*  Twenty  Eighth  of  ^I/arch,  One  Thou  fund  Seven  Hundred  and  Nine,  to  this 
March,  pretent  Se/lTons  of  Afiembly,  be  and  they  are  hereby  declared.ro  be  Null 
1709.  to  It  and  Void,  and  of  no  Force,  Validity  and  Effect  in  the  Law,  to  any  fuch  Uie 
void,  Of  purp0fe  whatfoever- 


Anna     Tto     Duodecimo    ANNjE    Reginxv 


And  for  the  Preventing  of  Clandcftinc  Proceedings  for  chc  Future. 

BE      a      further       Enttlcd      \>y     the      Authority      «fartfoiJ%         That      no 
Perion   wrhaclbever,     (hall     Buy,     Purchale    or    Hire     any      Lands      of 
the  laid    Naiirrcl   Sacham,  e-cher  by    Deed  of  Sale  or  Mortgage,  or  Leafe,  Noperfin  ta 
unleis  they  fiiit  HCavu'  and.  Obtain,  the   Aifczit  of  the  Governour  and  Com-  B"v  °>       ' 
pai:y,  ot  this  Colony    for  the  time  being,  under    the   Penalty  of  Forfeiting 
ftFf-iiy  Shilimffi  per  Acre,  for  every    Acre  char  Ihall  be  ib,  bought,  Purchafcd/y  Of  Twen 
/»r  Hired,  to*  and  tor  the  Ufe  oi  the    Coiohy  ;  to    be  Recovered    by    tiiery  Shillings 
General     Treafurer,    in.    the  General    Cc-urts'of   Tryais,     where  no  Eiroii!>Per  ^cre- 
Prorcdiiou  or  \\':u',er  or"  Law  fh^H  be  allowed  :,  and  all  iuch  Feoifment,  Sales, 
Mortgages  and  l.eales,  are  hereby  declared  to     bb  Void^  Kuil  and  or  none 

Elfett  in  the  Lav/. 

He  tb'<tt  Re. 

tAT^T)  be  it  further   Ena&:d  by  the  Authority  aforef<<i.i,    That  no  Recorder  o 
Town  Cleric  in  tliis  Colony,  (ha1.!  Regifter  or  ;r,:il<e  Record  of  any  fuch  Dee 
of  Sale,    Morrg-.ige    or    1  ealr,  under    the    Penalty   ot   Fifty    'Puvnd^  to  be  Fifty  Pouwis 
Fofeited  to  and.  lor  the  Ufe  ot  the   Colony,  ro  be  Recovered  as   a  (ore  laid,  for 
every  lUch  Deed  of  Sa'e^  Mortgage  or  Leale,  that  foall  be  by  him  Recorded. 


LAWS 


^cic  and  Pad  by  the  Genera!  AlTembhr  of  Her  Majefties  Colony 
oF      Kbo/ls-fjhnd.    and    Providence -Plantations.       Hold  an  J^ew 
tjthc  Twenty  Fouuh  Day  ot  February^  IJ l^. 

ACT  for  Preventing  Pccllers   from  Selling   of  Goods  in 
this    Colon  y. 


E    it  Ena.ct»d  by  the  Cjener*'  ^f^nbly^    and  try  the  ^Authority  of  the  fariie,  Ki  FeMet  rd 
That  troni   and  auer    Forty  Daves,  of  the   Publication  of  this  A&j  no -^  "itbm 
Pedler  Hull  opjn   his    Pack,  snd  Sell  or  ExpoJe  to  Sale  any  fort  ot  Dry  if"^,0^' 
Goods,  within  any  Town  of  tliis  Coiony, under  die  Penalty  of  Forfeiting  pe,.alty  of 
for  every  Iuch  Offence  Forty  Shiltin£stto  and  tor  the  Ufe  of  fuch  Town,  where  Forty      ' 
Iuch  Oiirence   dial!  be  Commuted  ;  to  be  Recovered  by  the  Town  Treasurer  of  linS?- 
liich  Town,  upon  Conviction  thereof,    by   the    Evidence  of  Two  WitnelTes 
upon  Oath  or  Engagement:,    before   any  Two   A.Tiftants    or  Juitices  ot    the 
Peace   of  fuch   Town. 


7O  x4w#  2^»»  Decimo  Tertio  AN-KJE  Reginx,  et  Georgii  Primo. 


L    A    W    S 


Made  and  Pad  by  the  General  Afiembly  of  Her  Majefties  Colony 
of  Rb&lc-Iflaiia&nA  Providence-PlantationSt  &c.  Held  at  Newport^ 
the  fifteenth  Day  of  jF«»<?,  1714. 

AN   ACT,    for  Eftabliftung  a  Gunner  at    Fort-^*.?, 

BE  tf  Enacted  by  the   General    jlffrmbly,   and  by  the  ^Authority  of  the  far>.fr 
That  there  fhal)  be  one  Gunner,  kepc   and  maintained  in  Fort-ex?  «, 
who  ih«'U  be  allowed  1'rventy  Pounds  jp.-r  j4nnnmy  for  his  Peforming  and 
•twdjt  Fort.  Exercifinp  the  Duiy  of  a  Gunner  therein,  and  that  it  /hall  and  may  be  in  the 
Power  of"  the  Governour   ot  this  Colony,  to  appoint  the  Gunner,  fuch  as  he 
ihali  Jud^e  to  be  beft  Qualiaedand  lixpcricnced.  in  the  Arc  ot  Gunnery,  ehr- 

L    AW    S 

p    and    Pall    by   ths    General  AlTembly   of    His     Mnjc-ftics 
Colony  of  Rhoeie-Lljncfy  and  Providence-Plantation^  &t.  Hei«i  ac 
'          the  Twenty  Seventh  Day  of  OUober^    17*4. 


AN     ACT.     to      Prevent  Slaves  from  Running    awny    frcnj 
their   Makers, 


WHET{EAS  feveral  Negro  and    MolMv   Slaves,  have  Kan-away  from  their 
Marten  and  A4tjlrc/fes,  under  pretence  of  Doting  Emflvyed  in  ibeir  fa-vice^ 
and  have  bten  TrjHTported  over  the   Ferries   out  of   thit  Co/«/y,  and  fuffered  to  p^fs 
through  the  fever al  '/W7f.f,  under   the  aforzjitid.  pretence,     to  t»c  %.rc<M   Damngi  dad 
Charge  of  their  Owners,  And  many  times  to  the  iofs  of  their  Slaves. 

/7o  pet  [on  ta 
Tiatifport  any 

Staii'i.  over  a  P^  E  it  therefore  Ena3ed  ly  the  General  jiffemblj,  and  \>j  the  tdutherity  of  the 
&iry%o>  out  1^  fame,  That  no  Ferry-rnan,or  Boat-man  whatfbever,  within  this  Colony, 
without  a'  -*— *  lha!)  Carry.  Convey  or  Tranfport,  any  Slave  or  Slaves  as  afore  laid, 
Certificate,  .over  any  Ferry, or  out  of  the  Colony,  without  a  Certificate  under  the  Hand  of 
O.-ir/w penalty  t!ie:r  refpscsive  Matter  or  Miftrefs,  ov  fome  Perfon  in  CommilTion  tor  the 
c/  Twenty  pg^^  on  fa  penalty  of  Twenty  Shifiliws,  to  be  Forfeited  to  and  ior  the  Uie 
1  "^a5/  Of  jj-jg  Colony,  to  be  Recovered  upon  Convi&ioa  thereof,  before  any  Two 

AfEfiants 


Anno     Reyni     T^TW     Geor^ii      PrinSo.  '71 
•      r,  *           ^^                "                                    


Affiftants  or  Juftices  of  the  Peace,  of  fuch  Town  where  {uch  Offence  ftnll  be 
Committed,  and  ihall  Pay  all  Cofts  and  Charges  thnc  fhall  arife,  on  his  or 

thereof, 
For 

And  ~alJ  His  Majcfties  Minifrers  of  Juitice,  and  all  orher  his  Subjects  in  this 
Golnrr/,  knowing  of  anv  Slave  or  Slaves  Travelling  through  the  Townihip 
wherein  they  Dwell,  without  ?.  Certihcare  as  a  tore  laid,  they  are  hereby 
Required  r^  caufe  fjch  Slave  or  Slaves  to  be  -taken  up.,  Examined  and  Secured, 
fo  as  the  Owners  of  fuch  .Slave  or  Slaves  may  be  Notified  thereof,  and 
ha-/e  their  Siave  or  slaves  again,  Paying  the  rfaiL^Oie  Charges  arifing  thereon. 


LAWS 


Jvfade  and  Paft  by  the  General  Aflembly  of  His  Majefties  Colony 
of  Rhode  IflanJ  nivH  Providence-Plantation^  &c.  Held  at 
'•'ixgs-Townt  che  Twenty  Third  Day  of  February y  1714. 


A/7  ACT,  for  the  Rccriflring  Deeds  and 

FOT^,  the  Prevention  of  Clmdeftine  and  Uncertain  Siles  of  Huufei.Artd  Lands}, 
And  t9  the  intent  tb.it  it  m.iy  hs   the  better  ktio^vn  what  Rlg'n  Titles  or  In- 
tertft  'Perfoni  have  in  or  to  jut:}   LXates  at  t'nty  ofier  to  Sale. 


B 


E    it   Enacted  and  'Dvlared  by  the  pre/oit    <±A  'fiembly^    And   \>j   the    Au- 
tljoriy  of  the  fame,    That  henceforth  all   Deeds  and  Conveyances  ot  a- 
ny  Houies  or  Lands  within   this   Colony,   Sign'd  and  Seal'd   by  the  '  '';''",,  S:j'-'i 
Party  or  Parties  granting  the  fame,  having  good  and  lawful    Right  or  ^it^w 


Authority  thereto,  and  acknowledge  by  fuch  Granter  or  Cramers,  before  -any  and 
AffifUnt  or  Juftice  of  the  Peace  in  the  Colony,  and  Recorded  at  length  in 
the  Re;.',iftry  of  the  Town  where  fuch  Houies  and  Lands  do  Lye,  (within 
the  fpace  oY  fit  Mv>n:hs,  from  the  Date  of  fuch  Conveyance,  every,  i'uch 
Conveyance  (hall  be  Valid,  without  any  other  A&  or  Ceremony  what- 
foever. 


AND  that  from  and  after  three  "Months  next  after  Publication  of  this 
no  Bargain,  Sale,  Mortgage,  <5l  'other  Conveyance  of  Houfes  or  Land  made 
and  Executed  within  this  Colony,  fhall  be.good  and  effectual  to  hold  fuch 
Houies  and  Lands  againft  any  other  perfon  or  perfons  :,  hue  the  Granter  OR 
Granters,  or  their  Heirs  only,  unlefs  the  Deed  or  Deeds  thereof  be  Acknow 
ledged  and  Recorded  in  manner  as.  is 

X  2 


Regti't'  1(jpis    Georgii    Friiuo. 


PROVIDED  neverthelels,  that  when  and  fo  often   as  it  ftuill   happen   any 
f,c  Cr...,     G ranter  to  Live  in  Parts  beyond  the  Seas,  or  to  be  Removed  out  of  this   Co- 
.'A«. '&(•*"    'unv)  or  to  l:e  Cead  before  any  fuch  Conveyance    by   him  or   them    made,  be 
ttviJt        acknowledged  as  ainrelaid -,  iu  every  fuch  Caie,    the  proof  of  fairh    Deed    or 
k<.  •vMjwut  Conveyance  made  by  the  Oaths  of  the    Witnetfes  thereto  Subfcribed,  before 
''ir     a"v  Court  of  Recoid  within  this  Colony,  it  ihall  be  ?quiva!enc  to    the   Par- 
»*  ty's  Acknowledgment  thereof. 


or 


csfi.'d  be  it  further  Emcled  by  the    j4u.tlji.rity   afor:fcicty  That    if   any    Gr.intor 
Vendor  of  anv  Uuufes  or  Lauds,  flvitt  relule  po  acknowledge  as  is  aforeiaid, 


iipon  Complaint  mad,?,  to  feud  for  the  Party  io  refufuig  ^  and  it  ne,  {he,  or 
th.ey  per  filt  in  fuch  refufal,  to  Coin  rait  him,  her,  or  them  to  Prilbn,  without: 
Bail  or  Mainpri;v,  until  he,  {he,  or  thev  (hall  acknowledge  the  lame;  uniefs! 


he,  flic,  or  they  ihall  Appeal  to  the  next  Genera!  Court  of  Tryals  ',  in  that 
Cale  it  being  fir  ft  made  appear,  and  proved  to  be  the  Act  and  Deed  of  the 
Party  refuting  to  acknowledge  the  fame,  by  the  Oath  of  one  or  more  Wit- 
iieiles  thereto  Subscribed  :  And  tuch  Grantee  or  Vendee  filing  a  Copy  of  his 
Deed  or  Mortgage  fo  proved  in  the  Town  Clerk's  Ofnce,  in  the  Toivn 
wherein  the  Land  doth  Lye,  fliall  thereby  lecure  his  Title  in  the  m?an  time  ^ 
and  t.':e  lame  ih*ll  ba  accountedfufficient  caution  to  every  other  perfon  and 
perfons,  a^ainft  purchaling  the  Eilate  in  fuch  D^ed  mentioned  to  be  Granted. 

PROVIDED  that  nothing  in  this  Ad:  iliall  bj  c^iiftrued  deemed  or  estetid- 
-)ec^  to  k'lr  ^ie  v^i^ow  °^  any  Vendor  or  Mortgager  of  Lands  or  Tenements, 
le  hur'J  of  from  her  Dower  cr  Right  in,  or  to  fuch  Lands.  or  Tenement*,  who  did  noc 
let  -Vwat  by  legally  pyn  with  her  Husband  in  fuch  Sale  or  Mortgage,,  or  otiierwile  Uwiol 
M,  bar,  or  exclude  her  felffrom  fuch  h«r  Dower  Right. 


be   it  further  Enabled  by  the  Authority     afore  fad,   That  any   Mortgage 
of  Lands  or  Tenements,  his  or  her  Heirs,  Executors  or  Adminiftrators,  having 
JiLnciges  to    received  full  latisiaccion  of  all,  and  every  fuch  Sum  nnd  oums  of  Money,  as 


htiori  1-  are  realiy  due  co  h:m>  by  hiru  -'icil  MortSa?e>  ihal1  at  the   Requeft  ot  the 
n  h  Rc'cmd  MorLgager,  his  Heirs^  Executors  or  Adminiitrntors,  ackaowledp.e    and   caute 
tbiiifiiJ.      latisfaclion  and  payment  to  be  Entred  in  the  Margent  of  the  Record  ot    luch 
Mortgage,  in  die  Town  Clerk's  Office,   where  the  Land   lies,  and  (hail  Sign 
the    lame,  which  fhall   for.  ever  hereafter  difcharge,    defeat  and  reieafa  luch 
Mortgage,  and  perpetually  bar  all  Actions  to  be  brought  thereupon,  in  any 
Court  of  Record. 


»f  any  fiich  Mortgages,  his,  her,  or  thefr  Heirs,  Executors  or  Ad- 
miniftrators,  Ihall  not  within  ten  days  next  after  Requelt  in  that  behalf. 
uutotjf  made;  and  tender  of  his,  her,  or  their  reafonable  Charges,  repair  to  the 
lM  five,  to  Yown  Clerk's  Office,  and  there  make  and  %n  fuch  Acknowledgment  as 
*1  J*Osjs?"  aforefaid,  or  otherwile  Sign  and  Seal  a  Diicharge,  and  Releafe  .ana  Quit 
t*  Claifn  to  the  EJla'.e  therein  mentioned  to  be  granted,  and  acknowltrr^e 

the  fiime,    before  any  cne  Affiftant,  or  Juftice  of   the  Peace  of  this  Colo 
ny  '•)  he,  ftie,  or  they  fo    retuting    to  do,  ihall    bs  liable  to  msk  n^od  all 


Georgii     Friir.o. 


Damages  that  flvill  accrue,  for  want  of  luch    a  Difchar^a   or    Releafe,     tv 'fr  t>.vf -.s 
be  Recovered  by  any  Action  or  Suit  in  any  Court   of  Record,   mid   in  cale  &**qgp* 
Judgment  pats  agarinft  the  Party  to  Sued,  he,  fte  or  they    lo    Caft,  Ihall  pay*" 
uiito  the  adverfe  Fuvty,  treble  Cofts  unfiog  upon  fitch  Side. 

LAWS 

Made  and  Pad  by  the  General  AfTgmbly  of  His  M.ij-tlics 
Colony  of  Rhode  Iflwd  and  Providence-Plantations,  &c.  Hckl 
ac  Newport^  the  Fourth  Day  of  My,  1715* 

An    A  C  T,  For  the  convenient  Laving  out  of  High- ways  and  Roads 
in   the   leveral  Towns,  within   this  Colony,    where  wanted. 


BE  it  E;i.:ttcd   by  the  General    j4jfank!y,   and    'oy  the  Authority  of  the  famt, 
That  the  Proprietors  of  all,  and  every  Town    in  this  Colony,  ihali  with 


all  convenient  fpeed,  take  care  to  Lay  out  convenient  High-ways,  and  Roads  ,,,'/,/>. 
irons  Town  to  Town,  and  to  Market  and  Mill,    o/rc.  within  three  Months  ot  High 
die  Publication  hereof;  and  iu  cale  the  laid  Proprietors  fir.  II    refuler  or  neg-  h  * 
le-£r  fo  :o  do,  it  ihall,and  may  be  lawful  tor  theTown-Council  of  each  relpto- 
tive  Tjwij  where  (  fuch  DereA   Ihall  be  )  to    order  and.  appoint   a    Jury,    of 
Twelve,  or.  more,  lawful  and  Judicious  ram,  v/lio  havi'   no  .p.ir:ic!i'.ar  intoreft, 
in  laying  out  the  fame  in  fuch  Towns  v/heie   i'uch  Deleft  is,  as  Hull'  be  found  Tf}t  Jury  t6 
inoft  beneiicial,  for  the  in:ereft  of  His  Majefty,   and  the  Benefit  of  the-  Sub-  b" 
jed,  the  which  jury  Ihall  be  full  duly  Engaged  to  the  true,  faithful  j;:d  iu- 
perbial  perfonr-tnce  thereof! 


be  u  further  Eiiztlcd  by  ths  Authority  .tforefeid,  That  in  caltf  it  ihal!  be 
found  rjoft  convenient  to  lay  out  any  Ro;id  or  Highway  through  any  parncu- 
lar  perfons  Land  or  Property,  or  part  thereof  \  (  who  is  not  under  any  Obli 
gation  to  allow  die  llune  ••,)  that  then  the  laid  Jury  (hall  agree  with  the  •*»•*•  c&ea 

Owner  or  Proprietor  thereof,  what  rcafbnable  allowance  Ihall  be  made  for  the  f/"''  '*"* 
_  i  coprtaop 

lame-  far  tie  La 

But  if  the  Owner  or  Proprietor  of  fuch  Land  flail  refute  to  no;ree  with  fiich 

Jury  i  then  the  laid  Jury  is  ordered  and  Ifapuwered  to  F.ttimate  and  Value  //  tiie 
tlie  Price  of  fuch  Land  as  (hall  be  laid  out  as  afarelaid,  as  near  as  they  can,  to  t'J-'^' 
die  beft  ot  their  knowledge  j  which  Eftimatbn  ib  made,  Jhall  be  'allowed  ',a  vli'Mt 

._,.,_.  °       '_  I      /-     I  ,     -   ,  r   '-"'"I-   Wl>  CIl 

goou  againit  luch  Owner  or  rroprietor,  as  relulcd  to  agree  as  atoreiaid.  WZflall  krai 
ihall  be  accordingly-  pai4  to  fuch  Owner  or  Proprietor  by  fuch   Town,    out   or  t>j  the 
their  Town  Treufury  •    and  alfo  all  o.ther    incident  Charges  accruing  on  the 
performance  of  the  lame.    Any  Law  Cuftom  yr  I/fage  to  the  contrary  hereof 


Anna  t(jEg»i  Ktgit  Gaorgii   Prime. 

ACT,  Appointing   and  Seating   Two  Juries,  to  attend  the 
General  Courts  of  Tryals,  and  Genera]  Goal  Deliver-/. 


FOR^SMVCH  as  the  'many  Afilonal  and  Criminal  C*fa%  that  of  lute  Year* 
come  iip»i  Try*!,  before  the  general  Court  of  1r-j.ils,  and  Grncral  (jnal  Delivery, 
,i;td  but  yne  'Petit  Jury  to  attend  faid  Courts  -,  which  'Prolongs  the  Sitting  of  fuch 
Courts  HC'y  muc'^t  which  ts  a  grcft  Illtonvtnitncy  to  the  Judges,'  and  a  treat  Charge 
tu  fucb  Tfsfoas  as  have  auctions  depending  ;hert^.bcfort  they  ran  be  heard 
And 


B 


E  it  the'erore  Enacted  by  the  general  ^jjemblj,  and  by  the  Authority  of  the 
ftimf,  That  for  the  Expediting  and  Difpatch  of  Btifinefs  for  the  Future, 
i  /!»-«'"  there  fnnn  be  two  Petit  Juries  tLlecled  and.  Appjinted,to  attend  the  Refpe&ive 
"tirfif  elm  ^/-General  Courts  of  Tryai?,  and  General  Goal  Delivery  in  this  Colony,  and  the 
2T>.i.V.  faid  Juries  fh.tl!  be  Improved  as  the  judges  of  faid  Courts,  ihall  fee  caufe  in  all 

Aclional   or    Criminal   Cafes. 


br  it  firtbtrEnjiEted  \>j  the  Authority  a  fore  faid^h^t  each  &  every  Town  In 
f  r'i  T:vm  &&  Col  on  v,  (liall  £le&  and  fend  to  the  aforelaidGeneralCourts  of  Tryais^tj»d 
General  Coal  Delivery,  the  fever.il  Numbers  of  lawful  honeft  Per.it  Jury-ttten, 
as  jt  js  iiereatcer  ExpreJiid,  (  That  is  to  -lay  )  Newport  Ten,  fro-i-idcmi  Four, 
"Portfmnuth  Four,  Warwtck  Two,  Wtfterlj  Two,  Ncw-jbsrebam  Two,  Kingftoven- 
Two,  E-Asl-Grun-xlcl:  T.vo,?.nd  J<tm:it  txa  One  •,  which  jury  (hail  be  Eleclecl  by 
each  Reipective  Town,  according  to  their  Ufual  Cuftom  ;  and  the  faid 
jury-raen  fo  Elefted,  ih^ll  attend  the  Reflective  Courts,  tor  which  Chofen. 


be  it  further    Enacted  by  the   Authority  aforejaia,    1  h?C  if  any    jurv- 
man  Choien  and  Elefted  as  afore&id,  ihall  Refule  and  Neglect  to  make    Iv'g 
ntm        Pe.rfonal  Appearance  at  fuchCourt,on  the  firft  Day  of  the  fitting  of  fuch  Court, 
ct  of        {jia|j   pay  ;|S    a  FJne,  Thirteen  Shillings,  and  Four-pence,  for  fuch  his  defe&,  unlels 
the  Judges'  of  fuch  Court  (h^1  think  fit  to  Remit  the  fame. 


it  is  further  Entitled  bj  the  Authority  aforef<iid,Thnt  theGeneralRecorder 
{hall  from  time  to  time,  keep  a  fair  Record  of  all  fucti  Jury-men,  as  ihall  not 
appear  at  the  RefpeQive  Courts,  ?nd   Ib  many  of  them  as  Ihall  not  have  their 
Pines  Remitted  as  aforefaid,  he  iTiall  at  the  breaking  up  of  fuch  Court    recurn 
tyihe  Menf,  a  Lift  of  their  Names  to  the  Sheriff,  who  is  hereby  Required  before  the  next: 
CaU    Court,  to  take   and  receive  the  faid  Refpeclive  Fines  i  and   in  Cafe  ar.y  of  the 
'*''  f*&  Perfons  fa*]]  Ref"ufe  toPay  faid  Fine  on  Demand,the  Sheriff  (hall  then  make 
Diftraint  upon  the  Perfonal  Eftate  of  the  Perfon  fb  Refufing  or  Negle&inp,  to 
the  Value  of  fuch  Fine,and  the  Charges  thereupon  accruing,  or  like  to  rccrue, 
which  Goods  Diftrained  are  to  be  difpofed  of,  in  manner  as  other   Diftretfes. 
and  by  -the  Law?  of  this  Colony,  for  the  fatisfying   fuch  Fine    and  Charge?, 
and  the  Overplus  if  any,  to  be  returned  to  the  Perfon  Diftrained  on"i  the  one 
iVioiety  of  fuch  Fines  to  be  -and  remain  to  the  Sheriff,  for  his  fervice  therein, 
and   the  other  Morety  to  be  difpofed  of  by  the  Court  where  fuch  default  was 
made,  for    defraying    the    Incident   Charges  of    faid    Court,  and  Account  ot 
all  Fines  fb  Received  or  Levied  by  the  Sheriff,  \yith  his  proceedings  thereupon, 
fhali  be  by.  him  duly  rendred  to  the  next   fucceeding  Court,together  with  the 
moiety  of  fuch    Fines  unto  faid  Court   belonging. 

Laws 


nno 


Georgii     Primo.  75 


Made  and  Pad  by  the  General  AflcmMy  of  His  Majeftics  Colony 
of  &fode-$a*d  and  Providence  -Plan  fat  tow.  Held  at 
by  Adjournment,  July  the    Fifth,    17  15. 


ACT     for     Emitting     Thirty    ThouCant!   Pounds   in   Publick  >«/•? 

.  -/  •*  h-ii'iti 

Bills  of  Credit.  T 

TAoufinM 


uuii.s 

WHEf^f.eAS  it  h.;th  Tleaftd  CjOT),  to  fujfcr  the  French  and  Indian",  «tr  Bilk  af 
Lac    Enemies,       to      sJHiint.iin  ,  a     /OH*,       Kioody     4nd     Expenfive    W&  dt:. 
«£.•!•??#  His  fat  jetties    Subjefts  in  thefe  plrts  of  the  5\Vr/«r«  America  }  «,';  which 
Calamity'  of  W.vy  this  Coienj  hxtb  been  n<>  ftnalL  flarer,  a  fycM  p.irt  thereof  Lj/ing* 
Exnafed  to    the  tnfultt  aneL  Depred.iricns  of  the  Enemy  both  l>j  Sex  and   Land,  which 
fo    defend  tins    His      Afaieltits     CWorjy  hath     from   time  to  timr;  for  this   rr..r:y 
Tears  faff  been  f  at  to  great  Charge  *nd  Exptncc  jph'dj  together  with  the  Extraydinarp 
jidditianetl  &:'.>'#'"  tb.tt  accrued  by  Her  IMS  ALtjfflies  C-mm/inds,  to  sljfift  in  fundry 
Expedition!,  for  ths  Inducing  of    Port-  Royal  and  Canada,  the  Dfrajing  the  Charge 
w'atreof  waved  fo  g>'eM  •*-  Surthen,  that   ir  h.tth  7{educ(d  the  *J>V1ony  of  this  Colcr.y% 
and  other  <*J\ie<j.iums  of  Exchange  unto  a  vtry  /O.T  Lib,  th^t  thereby  Trade  is  fenfibiy 
Dccaytd,   the    Farmers-  thereby    Difcouragtd,   Husb.ind-men  and   others  T^jduccd   to 
gre.,it    K-'rf«f,     .tnd     ail  forts  if   7>ufirief;    LtHgitfyingy  few  bavirg  wheretttith  to  Pay 
their  Arrears^  and  many  not  &kerejfrith<tl  t-j  fuiltua  their  d.iiij  wants,  by  rtafont'ue 
Silver  and  Gold  in  the  fir  ft   place,  •neifff.'.ry    to  defray    the  Incident  and  OccafimxL 
Charges  bath  been  Ex'-f.nSlcd  ;  thofe  few  BiittfPsttick  Credit    put  fo^th  by  tbis  Go 
vernment  fatting  far  fart  of  tUfchttrgixg  tin  Colonies  Arrc*r~sjMtu  left  ut  Itttle  er  nt 
Medium  of  Exchange  j    and  whcrens^the  z/fnnuil,   1$JCtff<try  ,-tnd'un.i-jotd.ibli:  Charge 
oftheColony  makes  a  confidcrable  Account  >  xnd  that  Hl>  Jif.tjt  flics  fjrt,  c.-i.'.hd  Forr- 
Anne  it.   gene  much  ty  Dcc.iy,   and  almojt  cv<-v  thing  therein  out  of  J(jpair^  and 
that  all  $wts  of  ^Ammunition  and  Stores  ure  Wanting,  to  Jurat  ft  the  feme  for  De 
fence  j  tffecialiy  at  a  time  when  War  (com  to  threaten  us.  And  alfo  His  Mtjeflict 
Cjodl  in    the  AictropHs  t>f  this  GoWrfW«Tf,  is  c.?.'/.v/g  far  Speedy  and     C'enfidtrdhle 
"jRjp.tirs  And    Enlargement  t  and  many  other   Pyblick  Emrrgrncies,  which  cannot   be 
Omitted,  P.tqitlring  eonftdtr*b(e  Sutns'of  Mtwcy,  which  to  Ljficl  there  is  no  yofybility 
in  flew,  faying  that   "/  Emitting  Publick    Bills   of  Credit     of  this  His  Mtftftitt 
Colony,  to  Accontplifh  the  ends  afore  faid,   and    to  "T^jduce      the    »/4rrcars     thrrcvf 
lotto  A  Bli*ncet  alw.tys   depending  on  ojr   Dread  Sovereign's   Countenance  and  Tole 
ration  therein,  untn   whofc  "Rjyal  Commands  this  Colony,  ,»  in  "Duty  b-mnd  will  at 
aX  times  readHj'  Submit. 

All    which  being   duly   Considered 


E  it  therefore  EvacifJ  by  the   Cjeijeral  <^4ffemb!j  of  this  f-Jls  Ahjefties  Colony  Thirty 
of  Rhode-UUtad,  And  by    the    Authority   of  the    fame  y   anil   it   is.  hereby  Thauftn£7 
*  That  the  Sum  of  ibirty  Thoitf#ia  frinds  m  Bills  ci  Fublick  Credir>  p'3';n;h  * 

3  '    «r  fUltttti 

I       ~>.  Qt 


of  the  fame1  Tenor  wirh  thofe  already    put    forth    by    this    His 
Jft_      Colony,  be   lonhwith    made,  anrt  pur  into  the   Hands  of  ii:i  Trutttes,  hcire* 
/;!»       after  nxinc'l  and  appointed    in    thi*  preterit     AcT,    with     full    power  to  a<£ 
therein  :>  wi.'.ch  Truilees,  or  any  three  of  them,  are  hereby  Impowered,  to 
-Sign  did  Hills,  and  them   to  '  deliver  uVito  the    Perfons  Chofen   for  Gom- 
niiitees  »f   the  fevsral  and  refpe&ive  Tow ns.  in  this.  Colony  j  the  faid  Trurfees 
taking  Receipts  from  the  faid  Committees,    for  iu^h  -  Sums    as    ftal!  be   by 
them  received,  as  the  proportion   of  fuch    Town,    which    fhid    Bills,  being 
by   fuch  Committee  receiv'd  the    fame,    is  _to    be  Let    out    to    the  Inhabi 
tants  of  their   Relpectivc  Towns  in  this  Colony,  in  Good  auj    Sufficient  Land 
:•£        or  o:her_real  Security  wjthin  the  faidTowns,at  five  founds  p:r  Cent  fer  <^nnum, 
6ucJ  out  at     m  Sums  not  rixceedin:!;  blve  Hundred  Puuiuis,  nor  under  fifty  fPounds  to  any  one 
^'eJ'Y^R' '  Perlbn,  and  that  for  the  fpace  of  Ten  Years.  Always  PROVIDED,    That  all 
"£":«-i/'™/'»     fuchPeribnsth.it  fball  take   faid  Bills  upon  fuch  Security,    fhall  at  the  Expi- 
teajeM.        ration  oi'  Five  Years  from  die  Date,  of  their  Deed  of   Mortgage  or   otbec 
a'Riranci:  rcue.v  the  lame,   or  give  any  further,  and  other  better    fecurhy   for 
the  c-?n*iiiu;ifiou  of  any  fuch    Sum  by  them  borrowed  tqr  the  remain!;^    five 
years  ,  if  by  d.e  frultees,    then  for    the  time    being,    fuch  perfun    fhaM    b< 
c      there-ail;  <j  Required,  and  that  perfons  fo  borrowing  the    laid  Bills,  ihaH  before 
in.  receiving  cf  the  fame,  give  five  Bonds  payable  to   the   General    Treafarer   of 
this  Colony  for  the  time  being,  to  the  ufe   ot  this   Colony,   for  .the   orderly 
and  duly  payment  of  the  full  five  years  Intereft  :   And  if  any  fuch  perfon,  au 
the  Eipiratiou  ot   die  five  youri,  (hall    fee  caufe  to  p;-y  down    the    Principal, 
and  Diil'iiarge  tha  Interolt  in    like  Pubiick  Bills  ot  Cred't,  or  current  Mo~ 
r^'^iiey  of  faid  Colony  -,  upon  his  or  their    fo  doing,  fuch  Mortgage    or  Stuu- 
**     rity  Ikall  l>e  relealed  :uxd  delivered  up,  and  the  Land*,    or    other    real     E- 
flace  fo   Mortgaged  or    Engaged,    diichnrged    therefrom.         And    the    f:--icl 
Truilees  and  Coipmittoes  for  the  leveral  Towns,  are  hereby  required,  carefully 
to  infpect-into,  the  true  value  of  fuch  inflates  as  fliail  be  offt-rM   to  M-.'ruage, 
and  di-^f  they  be  ot  double  ilie  value  ot  the  Sums  Lent  thereupon  ^  and  whe 
ther  the  Title  ot  the  perleu  defirinft  to  Mortgage  his  Lands,  G"c,  .appears   to 
be  lined  by  die  Town  Records,  where  fuch  Land  or  real  Eftate  lies,   and  tluic 
no  Encumbrance  be  thereupon,,  which  appc-anng   good   ana   fatlsfa&ory,   fuch 
Mortgages  to  be  taken  by  the  Committee  of  the   feveral  Towns   as  aforefaid, 
and  forthwith  .'(:  the  Charge  of  the  Mortgager,  be  put  upon  the    Records  of 
fuch  Town  where  fuels  Efiace  lies  -,    and  the  faU    Deeds   of  Mortgage  ufter- 
7bJ-.-iM.ni;      wards  with   all  convenient  IpceJ,  togecher  with    the  Bonds    for   payment  of 
.',.  ii:cTiiij!cLi,^e     Intereft,     by    Lodging  .in    the  Cufi.ody  of  the   Truftees    for   the   time 
c. '..'  /*'i  'ufr     being,  for  the  ufe  of  tl-.'s  Colony,     diey  giving    Receipts    for  the  fame,    to 
the  Committee,  of  the  fever.il  iel;vedive  Towns,  upon  delivery  ot  the  inine, 
the  faid  Truftees  to  be  always  accountable  unto    the  General    Affoinbly   of 
this   His  Majtfties  Colony   for  the  time    being,  for  all  fuch    Moritnses  and 
Bonds,  together  wiih  the  Profits  thereof,    the  which    they    ftiaii    furreuder 
up  to   tiie  General   Affembly  ot  this  Colony,  when  by    them  they  Ih.il!    he 
thereunto  Required  ;,  And  that  all  Mortgages  made,    or  to  be     made     na    <i 
Security  for  ihe  Bills  Ib  borrowed  to  be  to  the  firft  Truftees,   and  fuch  others 
,is  fliail  from  time  to  time  be  appointed  by    die    General    A:ii--mb!y   of  this 
Colony. 


o:    • 


Ard  fa   i(  r:,rtber   tnaKtJ  by    the  Cenful   JjfemUy,   And   ty-tbf  ^utL-'nty  of 
t;    famt)      That     Lieutenan:    Colonel    Jshn    lV*iritont      Captain    Job    JT-myt 

Major 


'R.ffni     Srg;s     Geor^n     Prim.  77 


Ma  ior    NarHiwitl    CodtbKvgimt,    Captain  P,cn>,nmir>  EHery,    Major    ytrnc  t  2?r«r.?, 

and'  Mr.  7{«b<>'t   (jarjnrr,  be,  ana  they  hereby    are   appointed    ;nrd    Cho(en 

to  he  t..e  Six  firft  Truftees,  and  them,  or  any  three    oi    them,    flnll1   SigH 

aD  fuch  Bills  as  /hall  be  'made  as  arbreiaid  ',    mid  the    aforelaid    Six    Tru£-  Lett  u.  each 

tees  are  hereby  appointed  oo  be  the  Commicrr-e  toy  the  Town  of    Nearport  + 

to  Let  out,  and  caice  Security  lor  their  proportion  of   Jitid  Publiek  Bills   of 

Credit  aforc-dekribed  in  this  Acl.     Anil  the  Honourable  Jofrfh  Jcr.cks,  Efq- 

33eou£v  Clovernour,  and  Captain  Richttrd    Waterman,    be    a    Committee    for 

the1  Town  of  PruiUfna,  to  Lett  cut    their    proportion    of    ihid    Bills,    an4 

tii^ir  Mr-  Tliom.tJ  Corned^  and  Mr.  George  Corn:/!,    be    a    Committee    for    the 

•To*"-'  of  Portfmoitfh,  ro   Execute  laid  Truit  i  rind  Major  Randal  Htaldon,  and 

Major  Job  Green,  be  a.  Committee  to  Execute  the   laid  Truit  for  the  Town  «of 

Hf.sr:\'!ik  ••,  Captain  J>i>rt  ^Abcack,  and  Captain  Jaftfi)  Stanton,   be   a   Committee 

io  'Execute  laid  Trnfi,   f  of  the   Town  of  H'tjhrly  ;    Captain    Si  •nan  Riyy   and 

•.Captain  J»bn  $,-\ndi^    be   a   Ct-.mmittee    to  Execute  laid  Truft,  for  the  Town  of 

Ntn>-  Shertb.i"-.,  'Captain  jahn  Eldfcd,  and  Mr.  Srtfl'tn  ffjfz^ird,  be  a  Coirunittee 

to  Execute  laid  Trull  tor  the  Town  of  A'/wffonv/,   Major   Thsmai  Fry,  and  Mr. 

'jhemji  Speactr,  be  a  Committee  to  £xecu:e  laid  Truit  ior  the  Town    of  Eafl- 

Grernnieb  ;  and  that  Mr.  Jvhu  .Hull,  and  Captain  Nicholas  Carr,  be  a   Comrnjtt 

tee  to  -Execute  faid  Tr^rt    for  the  Town  of  J.itncs-Tmn.  _     AD   the  aforeiaid 

•Cornm-tccer  fhall  lw  under  Oath  tor  rlieir  due  and  faithlul  performance  oj   the 

Trtift  repoied  in  th-m,  in  the  Premifes  aforefaid,  and  (hail  be  allowed"  and  pai$ 

ior  rheir  Service  therein,  TtnShittings  on  every   Hundred   founds  by    them    Lett 

out,  to  be  divided   amon«ft  them,   as   followed!,    (  ™'z..  )    two    thirds    of  the 

whole  amount  unco  the^'uft  fix  Truftses    afore-Jranwd,   together    xvith  a  pro 

portionable  pare  of  the  third  part  .iiottc.1  to  be  divided  wich  tlie   other  Corn- 

mic'iycs,'  for  rheir  care  and  trouble  in  R«ceivini?  and  atgnmg,  and    f^tfing.  the 

T-.nvn  oi'  JNVn'sst-r's  prep  >rtionabio.  part  qi  laid  iiiUs  ;  and  delivering  the   re* 

ir.airder  to  the  Commurees  of  the  leveral  'low  us  in   proportion  to   fuch  Mo- 

::ev;  as  {h^!!  1'S  by  them  Lett  our. 


afastjliuj,  That  the   PubJiok-*  Billg 
ot  Cjedit  to  be  Emitted  by  this  Colony,  fliall  be  made  and  hniihe'd. 


orty   hhll-  nations  of  tls 

ling  Bills,   four   thoufand.,  one  hundred   and    fixty  two  Pounds  ,   of  Twen-/c:YIJ//u'". 
ty  Shilling  Biils,  two  thoufcnd  and  eighty  one    Poundj ,  of  Ten    Shilling  Bills, °f £i"*- 
two  thoafandj  five  hundred  and  fix  Pounds  '•>    of  Five  Shilling  Bills,  oue   thovH 
jand  two  hundred  and   fifty  three    P-.niii.ls}    of    Four    Chilling  .and  Six-penny 
Bills,  one  thoufand  diree  hundred  and  rttity  Pounds;    ot  Three  Shilling    Liils 
nine  liuuared  Pounds  ;  of  TWO   Shilling    and  Six-penny    Bills,  feven   iiunared 
and  fifty  pounds  }  and  of  One  Shilling  Bills,  three  hundred   Pounds  i  beinf    in 
the  .whole,  Thirty   Tlioufand  Pounds  ^  wliidh  Bills  iljall  not  be  Pafteti,  Cover 
ed  or  Lin'd  on  the  back-fide,    on   any    pretence   whpifoever.     And    the  laid 
Truftees  are  as  foon  us  ppfijble  to  Si^n  che  atorefaid  quantity   of  Billy,    and  to 
snake  them  of  uivers  forms. and  dift'ndions,  n.s  much,  as   poffible    may    be,   to- 
prevent  CcMtitcrfeting  •,    and  the  Charges  oi  the  lame  to  be  rejmburs'd  out  of 
the  General  Trciiiury  or  tliis  Colony. 


Anna  'Rj'^ni  Regis  Gcorgii  Primp. 


And  he  if  farther  Enacted  bjf  the  Authority  aforefaid,  That  if  the  Inhabitants  OE 
•any  Town  in  the  Colony,  do  not  within  three  Months,  after  choir  Commit 
tee  Las  received  their  proportion  of  the  aforefaid  Bills,  take  it  up  and  im 
prove  it  according  to  the  intent  and  purport  of  this  Aft,  that  they  may  Lete 
it  out  to  any  perfons  in  the  Colony,  upon  good  Security  as  aforeiaid,  or  return 
it  to  the  Grand  Committee,  whole  Receipts  Ihail  be  their  Difcharge. 


be  it  further   Enatted  h  the   Authority  affrcfaid,    That  One    Thou- 
fand  Pound  out  of  the  Intereft  ot"  Thirty  Thoufand  Pounds  to  be    Lett  out, 
One  T!>oi).   be  Annually  improved  for  the  Sinking   of  One  Thouland  Pounds  of  cur  old 
fa-.ii  T'.-^nj    gjjjs  Of  Credit  formerly  Emitted  by  the  Colony,  until  the  whole  be   Confa- 
nte  Amnnll   JTU?^)  anc^  r^'e  aforefiiid  Grand  Committee  are  hereby  Impowered  to  Exchange 
.Slut  vitbttt  the  Sum  .of  One  Thoufand  Pounds  annually  of   our  own  Bills  of  Credit,   in 
iHtetcIl  of       order  to  be  burnt,  until  they  be  wholly  funk  as  aforefnid,  and  the  remaining 
tlit  Ars».        parc  0(  the  intereft  of  the  aforefaid  Thirty    Thoufand  Pounds,  ihall  be  annu 
ally  Difpofed  of  for  the  Intereft  of  the  Government,  as  the  Affembly   ihall 
from  time  to  time  order  ?.nd  direct. 


T>e  Gfnei-al         AT^D  he  it  further  Enatted  by  the  Authority  aforefaid,  That  the  Genera!  Trea- 
»f^.-  .^urer  of.  this  Colony  for  the  time  being,  fhall    have  the  ftme    benefit    and 
t!i«  "'  liberty  to  Arreft  each  reipective  Obligor,  as  the  General  Treafurer  hath  a- 
ft.        gaiuft'eacli  rel'pc&ive  Conftable,  upon  default  of  paying    die   General   Tax 
or  Rate  to  him  Committed. 


AN  ACT,  Prohibiting  the  Importation,  or   bringing  into  this 
Colony,  any  Servants  or   Slaves. 


WH£I\EjlS  J)ivers  Confpirtctes,  fnfurreZliotts,  Rjpes,  *fbeftss  And   Execrable 
C.  i~>u'i  k.ive  been  lutdy   perpetrated    in  this,  and  the  Neighbouring  Ljoverri- 
tiJ'iits  l>y   Indian  Slave i^wi  the  d^Hy  increase  af.  them  in  this  Cjovernm.en: ^dtjcourttge 
the    I>npt>riii/jrfof  White  Stfvants  from  Great- Eirirtain,  C/"c.  into  the  fame ,  which  if 
not  immediately  Remtdndt  m.ty  prove  very  *~Psriticly.n  >i,i~  Jdtflru&ive  to  the  C' 


B 


E  it  tnerefor;  T.thiflcd  lj  tl;l;  Au-^ibl'j^  and  by  the  estutljority  of  ,fae 
pwfjThat  from  aud  after  (  Three  Months  aexr  en.fuing  )  the  Publi 
cation  of  this  Ad,  a!5  Indians  Male,  or  Female,  of  what  age  ibever, 


•wffiteA,  u-i.  Perfons  Importing;  or  bringing  in  fuch  Indian  or  Indians,  /halj  give  Security 
;/i  tionive  the  Secretary's  Office  of  fifty  Pounds  per  Head,  to  Tranfport  and  Carry  out  the 
;#n  fa  iteir -fams  agajn}  within  the  fpaca  of  one  Month  next  after  their  coming  in,  not 
tMifiortau.  to  he  recurn'j  ^^  to  tj,5s  Colony. 

AND   every   Matter  of  any  Ship  or  other    VeffeJ,  Merchant  or  Pcrior, 
'.•hatfyever   Importing  or  bringing  in:o   this  Colony,    by  Sea  or  Land,  any 


Indian 


Georgii     Prirno.  79 


Indian  or  Indians  M;ile,  or  Female,  within  the  fpnce  of  Twenty-  four  Hours,  4#  Atyl 
next  after  their  arrival  or  cjming  in,  ihali  Report  or  Enter  their  Names,  'y,,','^°'' 
Kumber  and  -Sex,  and  give  Security  in  the  Serretarys  Office  as  aforelaid,  on  O  tk  y. 


IIIV^    i   CC     t-vy    I_>V     pai<l    '»v--i       1-UW4       iOlUlV      tilH^.    UI.M'..*      a:*    *4iUl  C  .  [I  1*^1,      lii.UJ     Ut.       J  ll'U    g'JUWlV*    {)Jl  fn 

and  Sixpence  and  no  more.  Any   Ad  or  Ads,Ciaule  or  CliUjfes  of  AAs  to  the  pitt> 
contrary    hereof  nocwihftanuMig;  Pcr  J 


LAW 


Made    and    Part    by  the    General  Aflbmbly  of   Hi?     Majefties 
Colony  of  Rhode-  fll**J,  and  Provident  -Plantations,  &c.  Held  at 
)  the  Twenty    Sixth  Day  of  O&t&fr,    J/ij- 


AX    ACT,     for   Railing  and  Emitting  Tea  Tfjoitfafia  Pounds  in 
Pu'olick  Bills  uf  Credit  on  this  Colony. 


f   t>  Ena&ed  by  the  (general  ^tffeinblv.    and  b\  th:  tA'it\}Oritj  of  the  fame,  ~>en  . 
That  tliere  be  forthwith  Imprinted  and  Signed,  the  Sum  of  7*»"  Tl}ovj<*nd  fand  Pounds 
Pounds  in  Bills  ot  Credit  in  this  Colony,  by  the  former  Committee  who  Emitted. 
Signed  the  T\nrty  Tooufand  Pounds  Emitted  by  this  Colony^  and  by  them  ^  **• 
to  be  delivered  to  the  Committees  of  the  feveral  Towns   in  proportion  as  9>tf* 
aforefaJd,  to  be  hired  out  upon  good  Security,  as  the  Tnree   Tlioufs.nd  Pounds 
aforelaia  is,  the  ikid  Bills  to  pals  in  all  Pubiick  payments  as  the  other   BiJJs 
are  and  do  pals« 


be  it  further  Ewcicd  by  the  Authority  aforcfaid,  That  every  Perfon 
or  Peribns  whatfoever  within  tliis  Colony,  thar  have  hired  any  Bills  of  Credit 
of  this  Colony,  and  by  their  Obligations  are  Obliged  to  pay  in  the  fame  foecie 
agian,  fhall  be  difcharged  from  their  faid  Obligations,  they  paying  the  lame 
in  Current  Mony  of 


An 


So  tsJnno    R(°n''    7^'f?ii    Geor^ii    Secundo. 


LAWS 


Made    and  Pail  by  the  General  Aflcmbly    of  His  Majeflies  Colony 
of      Rhode-  Ijland,    and    Providence-Plantations   Held  ac      New 


port,    the    Second    Day  of 


1716. 


AN  ACT,    Regulating  che   Maintainaace  of  Minlflers  within  this 
Colony. 


W/-/£'^_Ev43  »«  r/«  fifteenth  Hear  sfthe'2{eign  of 
f&rSeCOtxi.tJbcrf  WM-  A  -Charter  G'tantcd  to  tins  HiiAliiuIiies  Colon  ytin  which 
contained  m.mj  Qrtcitvt  Priwltdgtt^  for  the  lacourtgcmer.t  and  Comfort  oj  the 
Inhabitants  titertoj  '-,  amongst  others  that  of  jrce  liberty  o/  Con  I  deuce  >n  'S^elifiaus 
Concernment,  ban?  of  tin  ino^l  Triacipa',  it  being  A  Mfc.l  'Privitcdge  du:  ta  every 
ChriftiiWy  -is  by  His  faid  Aiajefty  is  tbfervcd,  that  ir:ic  "Piiiy  tightly  grounded 
upon  CoffcL  prtruipia,  •TsiR  gtvt  the  be  ft  antlgre/ft-efl  Security  to  Sovereignty  ^nd  trz/t  lay 
in  the  Hearts  of  Aicn^  the  Rrtngefl  O  blight'.  I  on;  to  true  Loyalty-  t.^iif'  this 
prcfent  jifrctnbly  being  fenjii'ls  ky  long  Experience,  thai  the  afosefaul  Priviltdgc  by  'iic 
(-joud  Provident  t-  of  GODt  having  been  continued  tu  ::/,  h.is  btt;s  sn  oxsiu'i*  int-ins  of 
continuing  >t  G->od  <tiid  Amicable  tstgrcemeat  turiMgil  the  Jribabitants  of  this  Ca'.anj  '-, 
and  fur  the  better,  continuance  and  f  upper  t  thereof,  as  welt  as  for  the  timely 


of  any  *nd  every  Church,  Congregation  tudSvcicty  of  ^Ptcplt,  ';aiv  Inhabiting^  which 
(lull  hereafter  Inhabit  within  Any  p^rt  of  tic  Juri/dicJion  c>f  the  fame,  trcrn  Endeavtur* 
in?  for  \Prchemineacf  or  Superiority  one  over  the  other,  Ly  making  Vfe  oj  the  Civil 
1'oivtr,  for  the  Enforcing  ».'  ,i  M.iimai,-i.'.i:ce  for  their  T^jfpsc'^i'e 


&>  Minifler  T)  E  f'c  F-rutted  by  th'u  Prcfent  ^Iffembiy^  and  by  the  Authority  of  the  £.t 
to  it  ui.ii'1'  |j  what  Maintenance  or  Sallery,  may  be  rhoughc  needful  or  uecelPiry  by  a- 
';•'''  ,°'"""  ny  of  the  Churches,  Congregations  or  Society  of  L'eople  now  Inhabiting,  or 
''.^3--  liereatter  fliall  and  may  inhabit  withi;\  the  fnr.e,  be  railed  by  iree  Coiv 
cribudou,  and  no  other  ways. 


Laws 


Geoniii     Tert'o.  81 

*-' 


LAWS 

Made  and  Paft  bv  tlu  General  Affembly  of  His  Majeftic&  Colony 
or"  Rhode  Ifl.inJ  and  Providence-Plantations.  £e.  Held  ar 
pro-jidexcct  the  Tlmty  Fide  Day  of  Otlober,  1716 


B 


ACT,  for    the   better    lertfing    the    Payment    of.  Officers 
-'s,  ac    che  General    Courts  of  Try  a!& 

£    »>    F::.if}fdl'v  tin  Ge.ier.i!  tsffimbly,  *a4  fy  the  tsfytfjertty  of  the  f>l"H  ,  Uc  tint 
That  ail   Perlons    whatsoever,   wherht-r   FJautilt"    or    Dcfeudanc,  t  li  at  :.,i,n  j 
(hail  ac  the  General  Court  r-t     I'ryais,  Recover   or   Obtain  Judgment  '"•«•', 
of  i:ii>.i  General  Coui't  ot  Trya'.s,  lie,  the  or  they  io  Kecoveiiis^  or  Ob-    "'"• 


wining  Judgment,  faslL  Pay  co  the  Recorder  all  Officers  Fees  due  iu  laid  < 
before  He,  She.  or  They,  ili.il)  have  His  or  Their  Bill  of  Colts  Taxed  j  any 
Act  or  Acts  C!?uie  or  Ch'.uies  c:  Ads  to  the  contrary  hereof  in  any  ways 
jiot  w  ithftandicg . 

L     A     VV     S 

Mads  and  Paft  by  the  General  Aifembiy  of  His  Maieities  Colony 
of  Rkocfe-lJIanci  and  Proiiid£nce-PlaHtatiomt  Held  at  Newport, 
by  Aciio"rnmcnt,  J,>.-,is  the  Eighteenth,  1717. 

AN  ACT  for  the  Explanation  of,  and  further  Enlargement  of  an 
Act  P;iu  by  die  General  Ailembly  of  this  Colony, begun. and 
Held  at  Newport  by  Adjournment,  the  Twenty  Seventh.  Day 
o?  February  1711,  12..  For  Graining  of  Administration  to  the 

Wives  of  Pcrlbus  Three  years  abfenr,  and   r.ot  heard  of, 

WHE'K.  F  dS  the  ajorejaid  A:k  of  cs-Sfj'cifibly,  l).ith  by  E.vp:rience  bee/i  found. 
•Utrj  bsntftlal  f.nd  Ufeful  to  tbt  tVivtt  of  fitch  St.-tftrtng  Verfons  Md 
ct.1;:'.-,  --::  h.tve  departsd  oat  oj  this  Culonyy  ,i>id  not  heard  of  in  "Three  Tears  after 
'J'tip.iftnte,  W'thnf  leaving  of  A  ewti  and  fujficicHt  1'ovier  of  Attorney^  niib  any 
'perfo't  cr  Pcrfint,  the  Due  "Recovering  a/id  Management!  of  their  E&Mtet  bath 
J^jtzl  and  Per/an.'.!  ::-i  their  it'oftnGt  '-,  but'the  Ciid  A3  not  bcin<r  jo  full  ,t/id  Extenftve 
.:;  nMK  fir. ft  bcoi  found  ueciffjtry  in  fuel}  like  Cxfes,  far  the  further  Enlargement  and 
'-  ~-l:wmt>on  thirtoftJttd  in  Addition-  th:rcur..fa. 

r  it  further  E»zcred  by  tht  General  jijfembfy  of  thu  C-lwy^-wd  by    the   Axtho- 
n:y  of  ths  f.-.rr.^  That  in  cale  any   perfon  being  an    Inhabitant    of   rhts 

A  a  Colony, 


Sz  Aims  rJ{jffK>  Rcvif  Georfii  Tertio. 


Colony,  hath,  or  fhall  depart,  out  of  the  fame,  being  Entitled"  unto,  or 
Ifftfcifa-i  leaving  any  Eftate,  either  Real  or  Perfonal,  within  the  Limit?  thereof  un- 
hr  .il'ftttt,  to  luch  Perfons  belongin'g  or  appertaining,  and  hath  not,  or  Paall  not  at 
tbice ye.vs  his  Departure  leave  a  good  and  fufficient  Power  or  Letter  of  Attorney, 
'}"'*£•{ -tf'.  with  ibme  perfon"  or  perfons  for  _the  due  care,  recovering,  man-i^efnent" 
u!,c>Rt'.°ti.  am*  orderly  Diipofal  of  the  fame  -,  or  in  cale  fuch  Atr.orriev  or  Attorneys 
om jbjU /'<:;«  by  him  left  flial!  Die,  whereby  the  laid  Power  fhall  be  determined;  and  after. 
.{JiiiiMJlrMi-  his  Departure,  hath  not,  or  {hall  not  be  heard  of  and  from,  \v!;;hin  the  {pace 
GRjcnM  Of  three  years  then  next  immediately  fucceeding  fuch  his  Departure  •-,  that 

then,  ;ind  in  fucii  cafe,  it  flvul  and  may  be  lawful,   upon  the  due  application  of 


Wife  or  Children,  or  other  Relations  or  Friends  of  fuch  periijns  ib  De 
parted,  unto  the  Town-Council  of  fuch  Town  in  the  laid  Colony,  where: 
luch  Perfons  was  laft  an  Inhabitant,  or  did  Dwell  •,  For  the  faid  Town-Coun 
cil,  who  arc  hereby  Impowered,  upon  due  and  latigfa&ory  proof  thereof  to 
them  made,  to  Grant,  Authorize  and  Impower  the  Wife  of  fuch  perfon.  it 
any  he  hath  :,  or  in  cafe  he  hath  none,  then  fuch  perfon  or  perfons  as  they 
fhall  think  meet  and  proper  for  and  in  the  name,  and  to  the  ufe,  benefit  and 
behoof  of  filch  Departed  Perfon  to  enter  into,  Demand,  Sue  for,  Recover, 
PoiFels  and  Improve  all  fuch  Lands  and  Houies,  or  other  Real  Ejfcte  what 
ever,  as  at  the  Departure  of  fuch  perlbn  unto  him  of  right  did  any  ways  be 
long  or  appertain  }  and  alfo  all  fuch  perlbn.tl  Eftate  whatsoever,  confifting  ei 
ther  in  Leales,  Rents,  Goods,  Chattels,  Debts,  or  otherwifb,  as  at  the  rime  of 
fuch  Departure,  fhall  be  left  by  him  to  Ask,  Sue  for,  Recover,  Receive 
and  Difcharge  as  w«?14  and  effectually  in  Law,  as  it  iuch  Departed  periori  had 
liimfelf  left  a  good  and  fufEcient  Power  of  Attorney  to  iueh  Ends  and 
Purpoies. 

PROVIDED  always,  and  it  is  the  true  intent  and  meaning  of  this  Ail, 
That  each  reipedlive  Town-Council  fKail  upon  their  Granting  <iirh  Power 
and  Authority  as  afore  faid,  take  good  and  I'ufficient  Security  by  Bond,  co 
ro  t.tkc  ju$.  ke  given  joyntly  and  feverally  by  two  Freeholders  of  this  Corony,  together 
fiT^tWe  w'c^  £'ie  Per*~cn  or  Perf°ns  unro  whom  they  iliall  Grant  fuch  Power  as  afore- 
f&tbful  M.  ftid  unto  the  faid  Town-Council,  and  to  their  Succelfors,  for  his  and  their 
true  and  faithful  acting  and  doing,  therein,  according  to  the  power  thereby 
(given  for  the  benefit  and  ule  of  fuch  Departed  Perion  ;  and  to  render  unco 
him  a  juft  and  true  Accompt  at  his  Return  to  this  Colony,  or  to  any  perfon 
.Or  perfons  by  him  Impowered,  to  demand  the  fume,  when  lawfully  thereunto 
"Required  ;  and  that  in  cafe  fuch  Departed  Perfon  inall  after  fuch  his  Depar 
ture  be  by  reafon  of  his  long  abfence,  or  other,  due  proof,  deemed  ?.nd  ad-'- 
judged  Dead  in  Law  before  his  Return  to  this  Colony,  then  to  render  unto 
•the  Heir?,  Executors,Adminiftrators  or  Affigns  of  fuch  Departed  Perfon  fuch 
Eftate,  both  real  and  perfonal,  as  by  Law  ihall  become  their,  or  either1  of 
their  juft  Dues  and  Rights  reipe&ively  to  have  and  enjoy. 


^_    be  it  further   Enxttcd  ty  the   Authority  afarcfaia,  That    in    cafe  fuch 

M:nm.  Departed  Perfon  ihall  leave  any  Child,  or  Children,  or  other  Reiarion  or 
m*;"t'iii°fa  Perfon,  the  Charge  of  whole  Education  and  Maintainnnca  by  Law  /hall  be 
eanftntof  f/*  Incumbent  or  Obligatory  upon  him;  that  then,  and  in  fuch  cafe,  the  peribn 
CWfMTjs/iri  or  perlbns  fo  Authorized  and  Impowered  by  the  TowrsCouncii  as  aforeftid, 
*$/£™t£  tfie  flW-U  and  may  with  the  confent  and  approbation  of  fuch  Town- Council,  fay 
pa  fan  wat  out,  and  Expend  out  of  the  Eftate  of  lach,  Perfon  Departed  <^  »iforef««d,  for 

tile 


Geongti     Tertio. 


the  Maiuratnance  and  Education  of  fuch  Child  or  Children,  or  orher  Relati 
on  ^  the  Charge  of  whole  Maiutainauce  or  Education  was  Incumbent  or 
Obligatory  upon  fuch  Departed  per  Ion,  Inch  Sum  or  Sums  of  Money  as  fhall 
be  bv  iuch  To-vp-Gouncil  thought  needful  and  convenient,  which  ihall  be 
allowed  him  in  any  Aceompt  afterward  to  be  AdjufLv!. 


AN  ACT,  Enabling  and  Appointing  Chrerieers    to  Leaie  out   the 
Lands  of  Nittigret  the  Sachem  in  the    farragattfett  Country. 


WHE'l\_E~/f5  Ninigrec  Sachem,  in  l'it  Narragontttt  Cfantry,  in  the  Colony 
oi'  Rhode-Ii]and,  <£r.  Hath  fetidoned  tint  ^fembly,  'ti>  ayfoint  three 
Ovcrfeerf  tv  Ova-fee  and  Rent  tut  his  L*»tltt  10  prevent  his  bfint  DtfrOudeti  therein, 
&;.dh*s  alff  dclifed  this  j4jfembly^  to  Difpfffejs  all  thoje  that  fall  refufc  to  Hire  «f 
hi:  Ovtrfcers  .is  /?.».?//  be  ffpotntea  bj  the  Qwertiour  anil  -Corny  Aj/iy  of  f&id  Colerj.^  frr 
the  titxe  btln*  ;  zr.A  dil'o  '•"  cafe  he  Jlj.i//  have  need  to  Sell  any  of  his  Lftnels,  that  f:: 
*v.-i)i  by  the  f.-i.i  (jovernoz?  >tnd  CmfOnyt  for  the  time  bemg^  be  ^fitted  therein.  For 
the  Complying  with  which  Petition,  and  for  the  better  iecuring  the  laid  Sa 
chems  Lands  and  Profits. 

E  it  Emitted  ij   tie   (jener.il  s3jj"tmbly,  and   by 


fimbly,  and    l-y     tat  Authority  of  tlx  fame ,  Qverfeeit  ax 

That:  .Col-  WiHi-im  Witntont  Major  Tnamj.t  Fry,  and  Captain  'Jofeph  fomteJ  to  ' 
Shimon  be,  and  they  hereby  are  appointed  Ovcrieers,  to  Overfee  and  Leafe  ' 
out  the  laid  Sachems  Lands,  as  ih.ill  :o  th'.-m  !ccm  moft  conducive  for  the 
laid  Sachems  I.itereft.  And  they,  or,  any  two  of  them  are  hereby  Impowrer- 
ed  to  DifpoiTefs  all  and  every  perfon  that  now  'is,  or  hereafter  fhall  be  in  the 
poffeffion  oi"  any  of  the"  laid  Sachems  Lands,  and  ih'all  refute  to  agree,  com 
ply  and  hire  faid  Lands,  at  fuch  Rents  and  Services  as  by  them,  or  the  major 
part  of  them  fhall  be  found  rnoft  beneficial  for  the  laid  Sachems  Intereftj 
they  not  Granting  any  Le&ie  for  any  longer  Term  than  Seven  years,  the  laid 
Sachem  to  pay  the  Charge  thereof,  and  the  laid  Overfeers  to  render  an  Ac- 
compt  of,  and  furreuder  up  their  •  Trull;  to  the  General  Aifembly,  when 
'.hereunto  Required. 


A  a    2  Laws 


Fsgnl  T^jgi*    Georgii    Quarto. 


LAWS 


Made  and  Part  by  the  General  AiTembly  of  His  Mfljefties  Colony 
of  Rhoflc-Ifland,  and  FroviJence-PlantxtioHS.  begun  2nd  Held  at 
Warwick*  the  Thirtieth  Day  of  Offafor,  1717. 

AN  ACT  for  Explaining  an  Ad,  Paft  by  the  General  Aflembly  of 
this  Colony  fitting  at  Newport J.\\t  Thircy-firft  Day  of  Ofto&er^ 
1677.  For  Granting  Re-hearings  from  one  General  Courc  of 


Tryals  to  another,   and  for    the  better  llipport  and  defrayin 
the  Charges  of  the   fudges  of  iiich  Courts. 


WHf-Ri  AS  the  aforefaid  «^#  for  the  granting  of  f^ehearingi  in  Aftional 
Cafes,  being  in  Cj  er.tr  xl  termes  (to  wir  )  thut  the  'PI  ant  if  and  Defendant, 
fli.ill  t.ich  of  them  have  on*  T^ehettring  if  deflred^  without  any  Limit  at  ion  u>  Er'pl*- 
v.ttion  i  fa  ibdt  rR,?bcartn£j  h.tvc  ban  frequently  Infixed  apart  by  the  Df^tmianttufon  A 
Kihil  >iicit,  Default  "Bunds  Obligatory  and  fo"  forth  \  *nd  many  have  been  Grunted 
•upon  the  afatftid  ^4'd  in  fuch  Cajes  as  aforrfaid,  wliu!>  tends  .ta  (be  (jcnerttl  Obftruft 
ion  ofjufticr,  kecpi>ig  of  Creditors  out  of  their  Jusi 


For     the      better     Regulation    whereof, 

BE    it   Entttcd  by  tlie  (Jenerjl  .>/4/fe>nbly}  and  /;y  the   Authority  of  rhe 
That  from  and  after  che  Publication  of  tWs  "Ad.  no  Rehearing  fhall    be- 
Granted  upon  anyNihii  *//t7r,ariiin<>  for  want  ot"  anfwers^jeiiig  d.ulyFiied 
ufo.-jNihii"'5  in  tlie  Recorders  Office,nor  upon  auy  wilfulDefaalc£,neither  upon  Hona 

dicir,  &*c.  Oblig:itory  duly  proved,  imlefs  che  Defendant,  ftiaU  by  goou  and  {acisfaftory 
Evidence,  prove  to  che  Court,  either  before  01  upon  Rendering  Judgement, 
that  liach  7y&#  dicn  ot  defiiuli,  was  Occafioned  !)y  Sicknels,  Stormy-weather, 
or  orhec  fuch  Providential  Obftructicn  o'  the  DefendarxC  or  his  Attorney,  as 

«-llV  1  .1  __     T  ___  1  ____  _£"/T.  ~1~       /""^   >_,  _1I.J          i"  ./t_T>.-r  •. 


of  the  Judges  of  (uch  Court,  to  pay  double  Cofts  and  Damages  to  she 

ia  Citfi'  be  fhztll  not  obtain  :-.  Reverfal  of  liid  Judgment,  on  fuch  Rehearing 

by  him    to  be  profecuted. 

The  Rvty  j4?^D  L-i   it  farther  Emitted  by  the  Authority  aforefaid,  That  upon  Granting 

eVery  Rehearing,  the  party  defiring  the  lame,  fliail  pay  to  the  Clerk  of  iuch 
Courr>  ^e  Sum  or  SeWlt  SkiSiagt  and  Six-penct}  Currenc  Mony.  Any  Aft  or 
Ads  Clauie  or  Clauies  of  Ads  co  the  contrary  hereof  notvvithftanciug. 

Laws 


i:!    Oeorgii     Quarto     ei     Qu'neo. 


LAWS 


Made  nnd  P,;fr  by  the  General  AfTembly  of  His  Majefties 
Colony  ot'  Rbode-Ijljatt)  and  Prevuteiice-Pfatttatiatit,  in  Neiv- 
Eng/s->?a,  begun  and  Held  at  Ntf»/w/,the  Seventh  Day  of  May t 
t~\$.  and  Continued  by  Adjournments  to  the  Ninth  Day  of 
Sep:  fitter  followi ng. 

AX  ACT.   to   prevent  Indians  being  Sued  for  Debt. 


For  the  preventing  tfiarcof  for  the  Future, 

BE  it  F.nafltiL  by  the  (jrner.il  Aifeml'.y  of  this  Colony,  and  it  !;  hereby  Enallcd, 
That  from  and  after  rhe  Publication  of  this  ACT,  no  Procels    litall  be  A":  Indian 
Granted,  nor  Suit  be  Received  or    Lye  before  any  Juftice  or  juftices  of  *"  "«,#«••'«/ 
the  Peace,  Affiftants  or  Courrs  of  Tryals  in  this  Colony,  agaiuft  any   Indian  ™l%££f 
or  Indians  for  Debr,  to  be  made  or  Contracted  by  fuch  Indian  or  Indians,  at  Wlojontr* 
any  time  or  times  after   the   Publication  hereot-,  and  that  nu  Indian  iliaJl  be  Tmjlsan  In. 
Botind  an  Apprentice  or  Servant  to  any  of  His  Majefties  Subjects,  withouc  the  diw>  '*/*' 
Content,  Allowance  and  Approbation  of  Two  Ja/tiws  of  Peace  of  this  Colony,  j^'  jnj[an 
and  for  good  cofideration  there  tor,  and  Teftifyed  to,  under  clie  Hands  of  fuch  to  te  a.  Str. 
Juilices  i  any  Law,  Cuitom  or    Utage  to  the  contrary,  in  any  wife  notvvith- 

ftanding. 

WHEREAS  the   'Body  of  L.-.r.'S  for   Settling  and  f^guUt^g  of  tie  At  lit  ay 
Forces  within  this    Colony,   an  in<,rcitjed  to  lu  Great  Nuntter  l>y  rcafon  of  the 
many  Wars,  v-r.ch  from  tine  to  tit/if  this   Colony  hath  fa  etigngrd  :'•/  again fl  French, 
Indians  and  other  Emmies,  which  hath  rendrtd  mar.y  ^f  tlitm  Vfelefij  and  may  \>t  for 
the   Future   Prejudicial)  if  not    Repealed. 

L  it  therefore  Enattcd  h  the  general  t/tjfktnbly  of  this  Colony,  and  by  the 
Authority  of  the  famt,  and  it  is  hereby  Enattcd,  That  all  Adts  heretofore 
made,  Relnting  to  the  Militia, or  appointing  OSicers  of  the  fame,  Ra 
hereby  and  Abfblut^ly  Repealed  and  D!?cbred  Null  ?.ad  Void,  and  that  for 
the  future  trie  foilo«vin^  Ord-ir,  Re;.',u!»tion  :n:d  Rules  Relating  co  the  fame, 
bf  Kepn  and  Observed  by  ;dl  1'erfon.Cin  ciiis  Cn'^'-.y. 

li  b 


Anno  'Rjyii  Rcgif  Georgi;  Quarto  et.  'Quint  a. 


Firft,  it  is  Enacted  and  appointed,  that  all  Male  Perfon?  Refidingfor  the 

-  __  L~  T"1!  ____  .-     "\  iT   >.•.*,!-._    .  .  _  1^1  _  *  _    *.T^  T        /"?  _—  I  —  ____    *.-.  __     ^1  ___      A    __        __*.!-'•      -       _         .          .1  * 


TV. 

fa 
>.y.  Served  in  the?  Place  of  General  Officer?;,  Juftices  of  the  Peace  or  other  Com- 

<e  only  mifiion  OHicers,  one  Minifter  or  Teacher  of  each  relpeftive  Congregation  m 
ttfftt*.  each  relpedive  Town,  ail  Sworn  Practitioners  in  Chirurgery  and  Phyfick,  all 
Apothecaries  and  School-mafters,  and  alfo  one  Miller  to  each  Grift  Mill,  one 
Ferry-man  toenchftated  Ferry,  oneGoalarto  each  of  His  Majefties  Goals  in 
the  Colouy,and  all  thofe  than  have  loft  one  of  their  Eyes,or  difab'ed  by  Lame- 
nels,  and  all  Peribr.s  th.it  are  under  Oath  or  Engagement  to  any.  Officr-. 


it  ts  hereby  Declared  and  Enaftedy'Thzt  the  GovernouT  of  f  bjs  Colony 
the  time  beinj;,  fuallbe  the  Captain  General  and  Commander  in  Chief,  of  and 
°""f  a^  the  Military  Forces  wichm  this  Colony,  and  the  Deputy  Cjoverncur 
'Central         ^01"  c^e  t^rnc  being  foall  be  J.ieutennnt  General  of"  the  fame. 


. 

The  Milult          AND  be  if  further    EnntteA.  by    the    Authority  aforefaid,  That  for  the  bettet 

faifcit  uuo     Ordering   and   Training  up  the  Inhabitants  of  this  Colony,  that  the    ieveral 

'*'*      Companies  or  Train'd-bttndSjfliall  remain  in  the  Stations  and  Bound?  and  Divi- 

•jion  by  the  which  they  have  been    heretofore  Divided  Known  &  Diflinguiihed, 

until  feme  further  cr  Kew  Divificn  or  Bounds  be  Stated  Appointed  or  Limited 

by  lawful  Authority. 

fyi&t  is  to  /rfy,  Three  Companies  in  the  Town  of  Z^ewpart,  Three  Companies 
in  the  Town  of  Providence^  one  Company  in  the  To^vn  o&Tortfmontb,  oniu 
Company  ju  the  Town  of  If'i»-!r/VJ,  Two  Companies  in  the  Town  oflVeftcrly, 
one  Company  in  the  Town  of-Ifele-JhorebjtnfTvn)  Ctiiipmies  in  tl.e  Town  of 
JCingStorv/i,  one  Company  in  the  Town  of  'Exit-Greenwich,  and  one  Company  iu 
the  Tcwn  of  ^nines-Town. 


\>t  it   further   Enacted   by  the  Authority  aforefaid,  That  the  Militia 
of  this  Government   be,   and   it    is  hereby   Divided  into    Two    Regiments. 
That  is  to  fajj  The  Militia  of  Rhode-  1  [land,   ^jve-S^oreham^    alins  Blcck-Ifiandy 
'Kc-gimtnij.  Conaaicut,  '  Prudence  and   Patient  fl(f*nd    be  one  Regimenc,  and    {hail   be   the 
v'i  Kwi-     Firit  and  Eldeft   Regiment  ^  and  the  Militia  on  the  \JUtutt-L*nd  in  this  Co- 
vitnt:c,be'      iony)  fnal!.be  one  ochei  Regiment,    and  fnall  be  the  fecond  and   youtigjeft  Re- 
"     '  giment  '•)  cac^  °f  which  Regiments  ihali  be  Govern'd,  Guided  and  Led  by    one 

Colonel,  cne  Lieutenant  Colonel,ar;d  one  J\'Iajor,wliich  ftali  be  AnnunVy  •  Cho- 
ien  for  each  Regiment  by  the  General  AHembly  of  this  Colony,  during  .heir 


11 

annualiy  be  i:  Ic-ftetl  and  Choleti  by  the  General  Aifembly  ot  this;  Colony,  du- 
j,-'',';1.;'''  ^.nng  their  SefUons  on  the  Firit  Wcdntfd.iy  of  MAJ  annually  ;  al1.  which  Miii- 
?•>'  ";/';'j  'b^  tsrY  Officers  ib  Chofen  as  aforelaid,  i'hail  be  CommiiHonated  by  the  Gover- 
apfoint^tn  nour  of  the  Colony  for  the  time  being,  under  the  Seal  of  the  Colony:  And 
the  .tftmtiy.  if  any  Colonel,  Lieutenant  Colonel,  Major,  or  o.ther  Commiffion  Officer  Cho- 

fen  as  aforefaid,  ihail  reiufe  to  Serve  in  luch  Office,  to  the  which  he  ihtiH.Tx: 
toapfrir,  Choien,  or  fhall  happen  to  Die  i  that  then  and  in  fuel?  cafes,  it  ihall  and  may 
Often,  tf  be  lawful  for  the  Goveniour,  or  ia  his  abfence,  for  the  Denir:)'  Gov^rnour, 
&y  Die.  by  and  witu  the  content  of  the  General  Council,  at  any  time  when  the  Ge 

neral 


Georgii     Quarto    ei:     Qulnro. 


»erai  Ai'frmbly  f»a"  noL  be  Sitting  tochuie  and  aprnint  fo  many  other  Offi 
cers  to  Serve  in  the  room  rind  {lead  of  tho(e  that  frMil  refute  or  Die  as  afore- 
lliid,  until  the  ftrit  Wedaelliay  of  May  next  endinu;  fuch  choice  and  appoint 
ment  •,  '.he*  which  OrpV'Ts  fo  Cholen,  ilia!)  be  Cornr&UEonated  as  above- laid  $ 
and  before  any  M-i-tiry  Ofiker  iliall  Enter  upVu  the  Execution  of  his  Office^ 
he  ft  all  take-  the  following  Oath  or  Engagement. 

The  Form  or"  the  Engagement  of  Military  Officers. 


YOV   A.  B.    Tlein^  by  the  Grncr.il     Affembly    tf   His    <JMijefties     Csleay    of 
ixhude-hland,  c.nd.  Pruvidence-Phmtations,    Chofen  and  Elected  unto    the 
TiMe  and  O'~\c  of  of  D»  ftletyalj    F.nfnec  true  ssflkciince  ante  ^ 

t  ^>  '"*  -  1    -C  l~  I '     ** ' 

'Ills  .'1/.?/./?v7  A".'.'?  GeorF,e,f/;'j  Heirs  and,  Succefiars  to  pear jer  alfo goad  fidelity  to  mnt(fai''! 
tiii:  f.fii  Afajtsii-i   C-.':Jwy,  ojul  the  jtutlttrity    therein     Estahlificd,     act  or  ding    to  Unity' O%:i>-). 
vur  Charter*      And  y-:t  do  >tlju  further  Euga^r,    resil    and  tfvlj     to    Execute    tb  ? 
Ojlce  of         tv  the  T?'i;rV/>  )•.•<?/  ft  £ie£tfd  according    to  your    Cvmutiffua^    and   -(3 
fit  form  a:;4  ubCc^-.t  t\:>.    L.'.-Xi     ms.de  and  jacridcd  for  the  fii?port,     "nd  well    or- 
<ic~ir.g  of  th:  Aiiln-',  ftttvou:  partiality  :,     'nd  that  you  iviil  dfftrvt  And   fallnw  fuch 
Orders  .t?: i  Inftrxttiont  as  jiu  fliatt  fr»m  tixtt  to  time  ncriye  jmm  your   S:;periourj . 
est-.d  this  Eng^emnt  y::i  muke  and  give  upon  ,ve  ferli  o[  the  ^Penalij  of  fcrjurj. 


Officers  as  (hall  be  reqjjfite,  for    the  management  of  their  refpeciive  Com-  ','ij',.""' 
pany  ^  die  which  Clerk  fo  cholen,    ili.»ii  be    under    Oath    or    Engagement, 
tor  fnc  performance  of  his  ftid  Office,  and  the    Captain  oi   each    Company 
is  hereby  impov/ered  and  Required,  "o   adrainifler    the    lame  i .  the    which 
Oath  iliajl  be  in  the  £  own 


YOV   A.  B.   2)'  felcmn  'j  En^e  writ  .wd    truly  to  ptrfjrrn    a;:d  Fxcut?  t'?e  Of-  Tit 
f.ce  cf  Clerk  of  the  CwnfMtj,  or  Train-liand,    under  the  Command  of-C-  D. 
to  the  utmyfi  of  your  skill  and  ability,  wit  houf  frtrtiality,   according   to  thi   Lvtff 
ik-.s  CV  :":•/,  a  Re!  MS  :;  r^r 


/'«  it  further  Enacted  !>y  the  n^uthority  tiforcfcid,  That  every  I.i 


ltilC,L*i*      U'J      L****     itiuivittwi-nj  i«  *  /     •  IvWfT     fifp*fft-i 

one  pound  of  good  Gunpowder,    tl:irty    Bullets,   fie   for    his    Gun,  fe    good  tbsfi™  ''/h-U 
Flints,  fit  for  Service  ;  one  good  SworJ,  or  Baionet,  a  Cnrtcuch   Box,  ready  M  Three 
fitted  with  Cartriges  of  Gunpowder  and    Bullets,  oil    the    panakv    uf  ?krte  £"),', "SJ.7 
SKffiffW,  for  each  time  he  ihall    be  tound   not    provided   as    aferefaid^    the  trD^ruxt. 
which  ftall  be  Diftrained  by  the  Clerk  of   the  Company,  by    \Vairuit  from 
the  Captain  of  laid  Company,  a»d  Six-pence    more  for    fuch   Diflraint,  upon 
the  Goods  and  Chattels  of  fuch  detective  perlon,  to  and  for  the  ufe  of  fciJi 
Company. 

vttfD  be  it  farmer  En*3ed  by  the  ^utbenty  aforefxiJ,  That  tne  Captain  gfafcQfftijr 
each  reipctive  Company  or  Train-band  or  in  his  a b fence,  the  next  Sup cnour  ^^^ 
Officer)  ftall  lawlu'Jy  Wain  and  Call  totether  the  Company  under  his  ( :om-  cssnpan/. 

B  b  i  tnaiid 


i^sffino    Rcpni    fR^e<(ls    Georsi'i    Quarto   et  Quiijto. 


mand,  and  Exercife  them  in  Martial  Difcipline,  two  Days  in  each  Year  in 
r»r.  timber  e'me  of  l'>eare  a  ^  F°ur  in  ^/ar  '-.  which  Days  Jhal!  be  ac  his  own  appointment, 
«/«>)<;.  the  firft  of  which  Warnings  flu!!  be  by  a  Warrant  direcled  to  the  Corporals,  to 

Kotiiie  them  to  appear  compleatly   Accoutred  as  afbrelaki,  ^nd    other  Days 

according    Co   hi"     own  Dilcretion. 

A!~\D  be  it  further  Ena'kcd   by  the   Authority  tfer  ({'aid  >    That   every  Enlifted 

Pci'lon,   that  ihall    Refufe    or  Megleft   to  make   his  Perform  I    sppearence  Ac* 

coutred  as  aforefaid,  on  fuch  Training  Days  as  he  ihall  be  Legally   Warned  to 

Three  Sliil     lh?l!1  *°r  eVCl'y   luc'1  De^ault  W  Co  the  Clerk     of  the  Company,  'Three  ShiSifift 

lings  f-'me  '   in  Mony,  within.  one  Month?  time  after  fuch  default,  or  make  his  lawful  excuie 

/»  regUflof   to  the  Captain,  or  in  his  abfence  to   the  next  Superiour  Officer  lor  flic  linne 

it  any  he  have,&  if  fuch  defaulter  fhall  Refufe  fo  to  do,th;ic  then  the  Captain* 

v't'V;5"",,-    °1'  '"  hisabfcnce  the  nextSuperior  Orricer  ilial)  Grant  forth  his  Warrant  to  the 

'tilerttwni.  ^-'^'I't  "'  ibc  Bind,-totako  and  diftrain  foinuch  of  the  Perfbnal  Eft;:te  of  fuch 

Uo:vtiiein:ci    delinquent  1'ei-fun,  or  Iuch  as  Jh-tll  have  them  m  Tuition,    ns  ne^.r  as   conve- 

Jb.ill  Jid.ff'-}.  ivoiKiy   may  be   will  pay  his  Fine   or  .Fines,  together  with  Six-fence  more  for 

each  Fine  diftrained  fur'  the  Clerks  Fees  ;  and  fuch  Eftate  that  lhall  be  taken 

by  diftrefs,fi»all  be  duly  Apprised  by  Two  Free-holders  of  laid  Company  ,undec 

Enjagement  ac  the    head  of  fnid  Company,  and  the   Captain    is  hereby  Itn- 

powred  -to    Adminifter    the   fame,   and  the  overplus  if  any  there  be,   to  be 

returned  to  the  owner  thereof;  ;md  if  he  iliall  refute  to  receive  the  lame,  then 

the  Clerk  fini!    uive  him  Credit  for  the   lame,  which  /hal!  be  accounted  for 

out  of  his  next  Fine  that  fhall  become  due  :,  and  all  fuch  Fines  taken  as  afore* 

Taid,  ihal!  be  laid  ouc  to  and  tor  the   Ufe  of  fucb   Comp.iny,  by  orde1-  ot  the 

Commi/Iion  Officerb  thereof,  for  the  defniyinir  their  hv-i'.l-.-i'ii.   Chaise. 

ts4Ni')  i>(  it  fur;  her    Emitted  by  the    dttfhcri;?   afrrefaitt,  That  in  Cale  fuch 
Ihvtopn.    Perlbns  as  (hall  be  delinquent  as  aforefaid,  fh;!'l  h;ivo  10   I'ci  fo'nal  Eflare  to  be 
ft'..',  rub        found  to  latisly  Iuch  Fines  os  af.)re(iiid,  tiiac  then  the  Captain  of  fuch  Compa- 
ny>  ^al^  ^C  ^uc^  ^%in*luent  Perlb"  to  work,  in  mending  the  Highways  of  fuch 
Town,  not  exceeding  ont  Day  for  e.ich   Finej    and  if  fuch   defedtive   perfori 


(hall  refute  to  do  the  lame,  then  the  Captain,  c~c.  lhail  commie  fuch  OiTen- 
ders  to  Prifon,  twenty-four  Hour?,  or  wait  further  to  take  his  Eftate  by  Dif- 
traint- 

f^i'2\P  bt  it  further  Ex.ickcd  by  the  Authority  aforefaid,  That  if  any  C!e>:fc 
Tbff'M.'ty  _  or  other  Inferiour  Officer  of  the  Band,  fliall  refufe  co  obey  his  Superior  Of- 
I'fi^-'f,  "  ficers  Warrant  when  to  him  Directed,  ihall  forfeit  for  every  fuch  Otfence,  Tut 
1-tfnfui?  i'->  Shillings,  to  and  for  the  ule  of  iuch  Company,  to  be  taken  by  Diftrds  in  maii- 
.-.•'.  t  /.u  Si:-  uer  as  aforefaid. 
fctiaur, 

AN  l>  fc  it  further  E»*ittd  by  the  &dutbar!ty  <tfartfaiiitTh&t  all  fach  Perfbns  be- 
jty  ftrfiptto  jore  {n  j-j^y  h$-  excus\j  from  Training,  yet  ihall    notwithftanding  be  provided 
with  rhe  lame  Arms,  Ammunition,  C7V.  as  by  this  Act  is  required  of  fucli  as  are 
obliged  to  Train,&  that  once  every  year,  or  oftner,as  tbeChit'f  Officers  of  any 
o.,  r!,c  put  \'.ty  Comptuiy  flt:ill   lee  needful,  there  mall  be  either  by  fuch  Officers.or  others  by 
'          ^'"'-them  appointed,   n  Survey  and  Examination  made,  whether  Iuch  I'erfons  are 
provided  as  bv  this   Acl  is  Required  :    and  all  fuch  Perfons  as  iL;.U  be  found 
unprovidod  with    iuch  Anns  as  before  Required,   fhall  p;iv  the    Tine  of  five- 
i»W/.;«(;»  for  encf;  default,  to  be  Levied   by  Diftreia   an..!  Sale  o!  tUe  Defaulters 
in  other  Cafes, 


'  "* 


et     Ouir.r 


in 

jperibns, 
ot  bixte* 

the  Co - 

habit  or  dwell,  provided  with  Arms  &  AmiminitTon  required  ot  Fraiix.-;.'  Sold-  (/,,  ,;,t  rc,:.i>f1 
iers  upo:i   Training   Days,  and  in  Cafe  anv  PcrUm  (hall  not  ;iprt-ar  as  a  lore-  of  l-ivc  bini. 
laid   fuch  Defaulter  ihall  Pay  tl)e  Fine  ot  Five  •SvilUrg;,  to  be  1.  ovifd  by  nrdei  ii"1^- 
of  the  Chief  Officers  of  iuch  Company,  by  Diltreii  aud  Sale  ot  iucii  Ddiaulcers 


Goods  as  in  other  Cafes. 


si&'D  it  'it  funbcr  Fritt:!  fyikf  jfutharlty  .<•  fore  fad,  That  ir  fha]1  and  may 
be  in  rhe  Power  of  the  Governour  and  Deputy  Guvernour  of  this  Colony  ior 
rhe  time  ber.i.r,  or  either  ot  them,  ro  Ailontblc  and  caU  together  each  of  the 
Ketjiments  ot"  rhe  Mi'iti'a  in  this  Colony,  or  any  pJU'i  ot  them  or  either  ot' 
then?  at  anv  time,  as  they  fh'H  think  needful  or  necefl&ry  for  cl.e  liitnc  ••, 
and  if  any  Ku'ifted  Soldier  he;nj?  du'v  w.irned  to  :ipp;-:'r  n:  :niv  tt:rh  uir.e  nr. 
fliall  be  appointed,  fhnll  nea'ect  the  lame,  lie  ihaii  I'V.rfeit  ;m<i  \\\y  as  a  Fine, 
?Vt'#  Shiliintri  in  money,  to  he  r.i);en  nnrl  difpoled  of  for  the  U]e  of  the  Com 
pany,  where  fuch  de'e.T;  (hall  be,as  other  Fines  are. 


txf^VD  &f   it  further    f.r.xtted   by  thr  si  *t  verity  afar,  I'tld',  Tinf  Jr"  fhp  C?.pt.ian,  £~'al  ^>f>^>» 
or   in   his  ahlence  the  r,e\t  Superior  Officer  of  "any  Com  pan/  or  Viain'u-ban-l,  ^^.'-''j, 
fhall  negled  legally  to  Wnrn  and  Gill   together  his-  Company  \uidettiuGoat-togttln-rfviti 
jnand,  two  Days  in  every  Year  in  time  ot  Pe-'.cv,  and  four  in  dine  ot  War,  he  "•  ti.-e  -\e.t*. 
fh;«ll  tor  every  Day  by  him  -vnitted  or  neple'dpd,  Fr.rfti'  :md  Pay  HS  a  Fine  tu  fJr"~Jt  /'''•'•'•'(/ 
and  tor  rhe  U!e  nf  (aid  C"iv  p  'iiv,  F.vfy  Shi/lm**  in  Money  •,  and  if  !uch  Officer  ^'jf,^ 
IO  negle&ing  ihall   R-ruic-  cy  ^^y  the    Ur.-.e,  for  the  Ip-c-e  ot  one  Monti,  next 
after  fbch  his  de'ault,  that  then  and  in  fuch  Gales  the  Colonel,  or  inhisahience 
the    Lieutemit  Colons!      ot   rhe  ReuimeiT-   vvhere  .fuch    omifiiioii  or  ueglect 
dh?iil   happen  to  b.%   ih/.il  CJrant  toth  his  Warrant    to  the    Clerk  ot  the   Band 
where  fuch  omillion  or  neuleit  has  been,  to  diflrain   fo  much  ot  die  Eftate  oi 
fuch  defaulter  to  be  uiipjled  of  as  aforeiaid. 


bt  it  further  E>:.:-:h<i  by  the  ^t,;u,-tiy  afaefaid,  Thai  in  Cafe  any  ,'^'' 
Capraio,  or  in  !rs  ab  :en-.:--,  the  nest:  Superiour  Ofhcsr  of  any  Company  or  cj'.j::'?",,/. 
Trained  Band,  flni!  nesilea  to  give  fonh  his  Warrant  to  the  Clerk  of  the  tt'd  •u^'i.^t 
Band  to  ColeA  ar.d  Oarh.-r  luch  Fine  or  Fines  *s  ih-'.ll  bo-  due,  he  fhftil  Forfeit  A1"*  >>u  V.H 
and  fa)-  to  and  for  f'-e  Ufe  ot  fuch  Company,  all  luch  Fires  as  lliai!  be  to'£  '.£.%',  .'''*p 
them  due,  the  which  il.'.'.i  H.^  taken  by  d;ftrainc,  by  Warrant  as  aboveiaid.  tf,e  'X'wf/, 

J'uM>>,\]  tie 

^NDI't  i:  further  Ew-Clfi  by  the  ts4uti>crity  Aforefad,  That'if  any  KnMtted  /•:»••« 
SclJi'-'r,  fhall   ispiu  anv  Tva-ininu;  oi    Mufter   Dav>,    Refine   Vo    O}-.v    his  Re-  °'"  ^^"'"g 
ipeiiive  Officer?,  or  otherwuys  misbehave  himlelr,  that  then    it   iiia!)  be  m  theiJl/^* 
Power  of  the  Captain  &  Commiifioners  of  each  Kefpective  t:.!-.mi-any,  to  Punifi\  inn-fist,  f,i 
fuch  Offender,bv  laying  him  neck  and  heel:-.,  or  Ruling  rhe  Wooden-  Horf«?,or  "'  ""••"i»-;jv. 
Fine  him  at  Dilcretion,    not  exceeding  ITJH    Shi/linc<  /««.•/.;/  .^t.W 


it  is  furthr  EaxfltJ  by  the  Authority  tfxrtfaid,  That  the  Colonel 
of  each  of  the  aforeiiiid  Regiments,.  ibaH  by  and  wich  the  Advicj  ^r  Order  ->t 
the  Captaiu  General,  or  Lietitenanc  Genera;,  Call  to^rher  ciie  Reipedtive  Ke- 

C  c  fcinvjiii 


?<jc;«*  Rtgi-s  Georgii  Qyarto  et  Quinto. 


Jt  Corner  al 

JHr/ier  to  i"    S«»nent  under  his  Command,  to  a  General  Mufter,  to   Review  and    Ewrcife 

l>*i  onfci,,  the  lame  once  in  five  years,  and  not  oftener  j  and  the  Ccmmiffiou,  and  other 
fry  je.iu.  In  ieriour  Officers  and  Private  Centinels  of  each  respective  Company,  are 
hereby  Commanded  and  Required,  to  yield  al)  due  Obedience  to  their  refpeo- 
me  Field  Officers  upon  a  General  Multer,  or  upon  any  other  Training  and 
JvTnitvr  pay,  as  Private  Centinels  are  Required  to  do  to  their  other  Comtnif- 
lion  Officer?,  upon  the  Penalty  of  incurring  the  Jike  pains  and  forfeitures  as 
store  provided. 

A'A^.D  WHEREAS  it   Appears  need  ft!  for  His  tJMijcslics    Service.,  ttnd    the 
Defence  of  this  Colony,  that  then  jhoxLt  be  a  Body  of  fJorfs  RaiJulJ'ar  the 
mire  jvaedj  oppofing  or  frofecuting  of  any  Enemy. 

BE  It  tlic'.-efure  Enacted  by  the  t/fittkgrity  afiref.ticlt  That  all  proper  means  b« 
uied,  and  !'',ncou:  augment  given  by  the  Governour,  Deputy  Goveraour, 
ami  General  Oiiiccrs  of  this  Colony,  for  the  Raifing  of  three  Troops  oi 
"^  Hode,  each  Troop  not  to  confift  of  more  than  Sixty  Pedbns,  iiicludins'  Ofti- 

Jti'ftJ.  cei-,  one,  or  which  Troops  is  to  be  Railed  out  oi  the  Regiment  uoon  the 
Iflands,  and.  the  other  two  Troops  to  be  Railed  out  of  the  Regiment  upon 
the  Main-Land  :  And  thut  when  there  fhall  be  to  the  Number  of  Twenty 
Iv-'h1;  Perlbns  Enliftecl  in  any  of  faid  Troops,  that  then  upon  due  upplicatiou 

r-ifwl'tot      to  the  General  Aiiembiy.,  there  (hall  he  by  them  Nominated  and    Appointed 

/.v.-y  juiyi  c.ub.  fuch  Officers  for  the  Commanding,  Ordering  and  Diiciplining  of  fuch  Troop, 
x*.  to  faid  Aflemblv  fhall  appear  proper  and  needful  for  the  ends  aforefaid  ; 
\vhich  OHicers  (hall  be  Engaged  and  Commiilionated  as  the  Oriif-ers  of  the 
Fooc  Companies  are  :  And  that  every  Trooper  fliall  be  always  provided  with 

T,npn*i  &.*  one  good  ierviceable  Horle,  of  founeen  l^nds  high,  one  good  Saddle,  Bitt- 
Bridle,  Hoifters,  breaft-  plate  and  Grouper,  une  Carbine,  one  pair  oi  t,ood  Pil- 
tols,  one  Sword,  one  pound  of  Gunpowdcr,tnirty  uzeable  BuH-'t^twelvt;  good 
Flints-,  one  good  pair  of  Boots  and  Spurs,  upon  the  Penalty  of  'Two  Shillings  for 
every  default  in  every  of  the  afore  laid  Accoutrements;,  and  that  the  Field 
Officers  of  each  Regiment,  fliall  appoint  the  Cloathmg  of  every  of  the 
Troops  of  the 


be  it  further  EnaCtcd  by  the  Authority  aforefaid,  That  the  Cap- 
m.i.tt  tain,  or  in  JITS  sbfence  the  next  Superiour  Oflicer,  ihall  Warn  tlu-  Troop  un* 
£f..;j  *»  Mufti*  der  h\i  Command  to  Mufter  two  leverav  Days  in  every  year  in  time  of  Pence, 

and  four  in  time  of  War,  ac  his  own  appointment,  as  the  Foot  Co)i'p:mie  . 
.•jpoi.'av"  to^^'i  Every  Trooper  upon  default  of  Non-appearance  of  fuch  Mufter,  wiien 
k^aeJ  i-'ivc  legally  Warned  thereunto,  {hall  pay  as  a  Fine,  to  and  for  rhe  utu  of.  luch 
Stulhiigs.  Troop,  Fly:  Shilli?i{s  in  Money,  to  be  taken  by  Diftreft  in  like  m.nnner  as  tiie 

Fines  in  the  Foot  Companies  are  ;  and  for    every  default   of"  Appearance    oa 

an  Alarm,  every  Trooper  fhall  pay  a  Finer  ol  Ten   Snllmgs,  to  be   rakeu   ana 

tiiipofed  oi  in  manner  as  aforefaid. 


be  it  further  Enacted  dy  the  ^uthfiity  4/Vrr/iwaE,  If  th,'  Gaptain^ 
or  in  his  abience  the  next  Commandi-ig  OrScor  ihall  negled  to  Muftei  aiij,! 
fmilti  a)lt!l~  Ex.ei"ciie  his  Troop  two  fevera!  Dayes  in  .-ach  year,  &i:  he  faaii  be  un.ler  the 
Cipi.wi,  &c.  like  Fines  ns  the*  Commifiion  Officer';  <-f  f!;.^  Foot  Company  ire  j  ta  be  Re- 
tl>.u  net-Ms  covered  and  Difuofed  ot  in  the  lik/-  niaiincr. 
tici)  Datj* 

And 


Rt^rri     T^r  'if     Georiui     Quarto     et     Quinto. 


In   it  ;'xr:bcr   En.ii'lcd  by    the    Authority  aftrtjltid.   That  the  Commifli- 

ou  Officers  of  each  Troop,  feaU  have  the  ferae  power  to  punifti  or  tine  fuch 
Troopers  as  ihall  refute  to  obey  their  Commands  on  their  M -after  Davs,  or  ( 
tfiall  oihervvays  misbehave  themielves  as  the,Captaiu  of  the  Foot  Companies 
have.  And  that  the  Clerk  of  each  Troop  Ihall  pay  Ten  ShHUags  for  every  de- 
Jed  of  his  in  aesli-'cling  to  obferve  fuch  Wai  rant  as  from  his  Supericiur  Offi 
cers  ihall  be  to  him.  directed. 

The  Form  of  the  ConimilTion  for  Colonel 

By  the  Honourable  A  B.  Efq;  Govcrnour  of  His  Majcftics  Colony 
of  Rhode  I/land,  and  PrffviJe*cc-Piantatiff»t  in  tfew-£jtjr£utd 

To  C  D.  Gent.     Greeting. 

YO'J  C*   D.    'Being    ly    the    (jentrat     A§e»iv'y  of    this  CAori);    Elected     and  jt^^,,neii 
Chofcn  to  the  P-.sl  ti,id  Ojfut:  of  Colonel  of  the    T^jgimtnt    of    Afiiit:*     on  U»»i$fl* 
the  Inlands  in  this  Colony,  are  hereby  in  His  ^JM-ijcslits  Name,  George,    by  the 
Urjce  of  GOD,  over.  Great  Britain,    France  and  Ireland,    King,    'Defender    of 
the.  Fttitkj  &c.  txfar/JontfJ,  hnpooered  and    Cemnvfiiw&ttd  to  Excrcife  the    Of~ 
fl-e  of  Cviwil  t/   thi  faid  "JRjgimeat,  and  to  Cvimns.nd,    Guide  and     Co-tdutl    the 
fame,     or     ii>:y     particxtxr    Cutnpzny  or  Comp.mes  thereof  ,    itnd  in    c-ifc     of    any 
Invasion  or  ^fuitlt  of  .?  Common  Eticaty,    to   i-ifcst  ttrid  disturb  this  His  Sif.ijef-- 
ties  Plantations  ;   fou  are  to  <iAiarm  (Kid  Cj-i;ijcr    together  under  your    Comm.tndr 
or  any  part   thereof,  eu  you    (liatt  diem  fvjjicicttt,    And   with  them  to  t'ue  iitmoSl  of 
y:iir  sk!U  and  .ibiiity,  yj-j,  are  to  "J^fftir,  E.vpulft,   Expel,    Kill  and    'Deftroy    the 
fame,  in  order  tc  prejerve  the  later  tit    of    His   Mujefty,     and  His  Gotd    Suljeftt 
in  t'kefe  T^rts.     Tan  aft  alfo  to  foRov>  fuel)    further  Inftruttiuns  and  Dlrc:}ia^ r  at 
fijlt  from  timt  t)  tit?t;  be  further  given  forth  either  from  the   General  Affnxbljjbe 
Govtmour  and  General  Council  :  And  for  your  fo  fifing,    this  Csmtmjfion  /;.»//    be 
your  fufficierit  Warrant  .wd  Difch.tr^e. 

Aud  the  like  Form  of  Commifllpn  fiiall  fcrve  for  all  oilier 
milTion  Officers,,  Mutatis   Mutandis* 


bt  it  further  Enacted  by   the  ^Authority  ^farcf.tid,  That  all  die  Com- 
fliiflion  Officers  ot  the  Militia,  fliall  be   and   remain  in  their  Refpe&ive  Foftsj 
until  the  General   AiCrnbly    at   tlieir  Sitting  on  the  iirft  Wednelday  oi  M*y 
next,  flu»U  appoint  Commiihou  Oflicers  for  the  fame. 

AND   im   it  i'xrtbir  Enacted  by  the  s Authority  aforefcid,  Th;it  the  Governcuj* 
and  Deputy    Govcriuur,  Members  of  the  General  Council,    with  the  Field 
Officers  and  Cutmni&OD   Oflkers,  of  each  Regiment,  and    the    jutb'ces  of  the  lf'~fo>  J&.i!l 
Peace  that  live  within  the  lhme,or  the  Major  part  of  them,  fh:il!  be  a  Council  " 
of   War,  for    each  of  faid  Regiments,  both  in  Peace  and  War,    to  fettle  »U 
Watches  and  Wards,  and  to  put  in    Force  and  fixecure  the  Law  Martial   as 
need  may    Require,  anA    Generally  to   Say,  Do  and    Act  all  and  whattbever" 
Tilings  flwll  be  ncediul,  rieceflary  or  proper  for  a  Council  of  War  to  do. 

C  C    2  c/^n4 


Georgii    Quarto  et  Quinto. 


be  it  further    Unfilled   by  the-   Avlkyrity   aferef.tid,   For    the  fecuring 
of  this  Colony,  and  the  Navigation    thereof  ajainft   Privateers,  in    time   ol 
aylKafeat,    War,  .T.d  Py  rates  in  time  of  Peace,  which  may  infeft  the  fame  i    that  the  Go- 
&c.  /it  Go-    vernour  of  this  Colony  for  the  time  beintt.,  or  in  his  ablence,  or  by  his   leave 
ar      f^  permijlion,  the  Deputy  Governour  ol  the  lame,  ihali,  and  may  in  time  oi 
to'     War,  or  any  other  emergent  Occasion,  Ijnpower  and  Commiffionate  fuch  per- 


fon  or  perfons,  as  he  fhall  deem  and  adjudge  to  be  Loyal,  Couragious,  and 
capable  to  Command  fuch  Ship  or  Ships,  or  other  VeiTels  (  us  by  and  with 
/  the  advice  of  fo  many  of  the  Council,  and  Field  Officers,  as  maybe  had  at 
the  hot.  l<"  i'uch  tmie  b*  thought  needful  tor,  as  to  Repel,  or  take  any  Privateer  or  Pi 
rate,  as  ihal)  infeft  this  Colony  ;  and  alfo  to  take  up  and  Imprefs  fuch  Shii> 
or  Ships,  or  other  Veftels,  as  fhail  be  deemed  needful  for  the  fame  •,  and  to 
equip  and  fit  the  fame  for  the  Sea,  ami  with  Arms,  Ammunition  and  Provifl- 
ons,  and  i'uch  o'-her  necedary  Stores  as  {hall  be  requifite,  our  of  the  Colonies 
Magazine,  it  lufficient  there  be  ;  otherwile  to  Sesz.  and  Imprefs  fuch  Stores 
and  Ammunition  as  ihall  ferve  for  the  lame  ^  and  alfo  to  linlift  ot  Imprefs 
juch  and  fi>  many  Seamen  and  others,  as  fhal!  l-.e  needful  and  requifite  to  Man 
out  fuch  Velfels  as  fhull  be  taken  up  or  Impreiied  as  aforeiaid  j  fuch  Veflel  or 
V'eiiels  fo  fitted  our,  not  to  Ciuiie  any  longer  at  one  time,  than  ten  days,  the 
Danger  ot  the  Seas  only  excepted. 

And  for  the  Encouragement  of  Seamen  and  others  to  Enlift  chem- 
ielves   voluntarily  on  iuch  Occafions. 

TBt  it  further  F-naffcd  by  the  <^-futharity  afvrtfaid,  That  all  fuch  Ships  or  other 

Veffels  that  ihall  be  taken  from  the  Enemy,   during  Iuch  Cruiie,  together  with 

Att  th.it't       their  Loading  and  AppiirtenrmccSj  ihaii  be,  and  remain   to  the   Captors,    His 

lakemots.     Majefties  Dues,  and  the  Charge  of  the  Out-  fert  only  excepted;    and  in  cafe 

long  ta  the      f  ha-  ilot  lung  iuall  be  taken  from  the  Enemy  duiin^   Iuch  Cruife  •,  the  Charge 

thereof  foal)  be  born  by  the  Colony. 


AN  ACT  for  Relieving  Iuch  as  fhall  be  Maimed  in  rhe  Colonies 
Service,  and  the  VV^idow,  Parents  or  Relations  of  fuch  as  fhall 
be  Killd  in  the  Colonies  Service,  and  ihail  noc  be  able  to 
Subfift  and  Maintain  themfelves. 


BE  it  Enacted  \jy  the  (general  Affembly  of  (hit  Colony^  And  by  the  t/tutbority  of 
the    fame,      That    if   any    Officer,    Soklier  or  Sailor,  that   lliaiJ     be 
ic'&lan'w"  imployed     by     this     Colony,     againft  HIS      MAJESTIES      Enemies,      in' 
ioi>c  defence  o{  this  Colony  or  otherwife,  fh:'M  be  Maimed  and  Difabled  by  lofs  of 
fd  jt  L',mb  or  Limbs,or  otlierwife  from  getting  a  livelihood  for  himfelfand  Family, 
rge.    or  ocjjer  ^e]ations  that  have  dependance  on  him  for  Maintainance  ;that  then, 
and  in  Iuch  Cafes,  fuch  Maimed  Pa  Ion,  fhall  have  his  Wounds  carefully  looked 
after  and  healed    at  the  Colonies    charge,  and  ihall  have  an  Annual  Penfion 
allowed   him  out.  of  the  General  Trealury,  fufficient  to  maintain  himielf  and 
Family,  or  other  Relations  whofe  Maintainance  is  incumbent  cu  him. 

jtT^T)  be  it  further   Enattctl   by  the  jitttliarLty  ftfarefnid.  That  if  any   Perfon. 
or  Perfons  fhall  be  Slain  in  this  Colonies    Service  as  atorefaid,  and  have  the 

charge 


£tgis     GeoTgii     Quarto     et     Quiuto. 


charge  of  Mainlining  a  Wife,  Children,  Parents  or  other  Relations,  that  tli.-n 
and  in  Uich  Cafes,  iuch  Wife.  Children,  Parents  or  other.  Relations  }  the 
Charge  of  whofe  Maintamance  was  Incumbent  on  iuch  Pcrfon  Slain  as  afore- 
laid,  ihall  be  Subscribed  and  Maintained  by  the  Colony,  by  a  Yearly  Penfnn,  to 
be  allowed  them  out  of  the  Genera!  Trealury,  as  by  the  General  Aflembly-fiiftU 
be  deemed  fufHcient  for  the  i;une,  until  iuch  Wife,  Children,  Parents  or  other 
Relations,  ihai!  happen  co  Die  or  be  able  to  Subiift  and  Maintain  theraielves. 

I 

Ami   for  the  better  putting    this    Act   in   Execution. 


BE  it  further  Enacted   by  t'as  tsfutbority  tif't>refait!,  That  the  Town  Council  of^je  j-jm^ 
\  each  Reflective  Town  in  this  Colony,,  Ihall  have  the  care  and  overflight    of  Come::  of 
Iuch  Pertbns  as   Refule  in  their  Reipechve  Towns,  as   are  Intituled   to  any  (nd-jcffei 
Penfion  as  atore(aid,and  from  ti'iie  t.>  time  to  Receive  the  fame,  and  therewith  ;"  T,'w" 
fuppiy  iuch  t'erlons  as  they  ihall  fhnd  in    need  thereof.  jmforut'd! 


AN  ACT  tor  the  better  Reulation  of  Attachments  in  Civil  AcHons. 


TTCT/^-'J^cy/?  by  t''c  Cu'sl*m  ••/  .'/'<>  Colony  of  Lite  1s:trs  it  b.n  ban  aUtrncd,  ths.e 
V\  t'K  Sefi-ff  &  hit  "Dfpvfitt  A  taiki-ny  cf  Cocas  of  fmeli  ^'.iuf^and  wt  arfrrer- 
abie  1,1  the  debt  or  damage  Sued  f-r  by  the  Tir.'iriff,  tj  be  a  g  nod  ftrv:ce  of  juch  Write 
in  Caje  of  the  Deferidxitti  abje-r.ee,  -n-ijich  hath  been  a  cau/e  th>tt  there  hath  not 
been.  (but  diligents  uftd  for  the  sirreftirg  the  Defendant?  TerJ^i  as  ought  to  be. 


BE  it  t'scsefor-e   Enatttil   !ry  tl'i  (jtueral    <iSf/fembiy    of  this  Colony  ^  and    by    tbr  „,     . 
•stxtl.'vrlij  oftst  fame,    Tim  for   the  future  upon  any  "Writ  delivered  the  went  to  it 
Sheriff  in   a    Civil    Afrion,  he   ih'-ill  by    In'mfeH',  or  hw  Deputy,  Ufe  his  bcft  miJe  -tn.dt 
Diligence  to  Arreft  the  B<idy  of  the  Defendant,  or  Defendants,  and  lhal]  not 
Attach  tiie  D^veiii-iants  Gtjods  or  Chattels,  unlefs  iuch  Goods  and  Chattels  fa 
Attached  be  of  futficient   V^lue  to  ajifwer  the  damages  laid  in  fuch  Writ  •, 
Excepting   only  where  the  Plantilf  or  his  Attorney  ihall  on  the   back  of  fuch  /•/.•;:•?.•  •/  w 
Writ  order  the  fame  under  the  Hand  ot  fuch   Flainrirf,   or  his  \ttornv  •,   Out,  ^  fame. 
in  Cafe  the  PlaintiiY,  or  his  Attorney,  fhall  to  order  the  fame,  fuch.  iervice  ihuM 
be  fuificienc  to  bring  the  caufe   to  a  Tryal. 


AN    ACT,    1'or  Diftribution  and  Settling  of  Inteflates  Edate, 

WH TifJ{E<i/4S  it  bat't  been  found  by  Experience  in  this  Cotanf,  to  be  very 
wt-'igful  and  fujurints  to  the  Tublick  (joaiL,  its  well-  as  Private  Inter  eft  of 
the  youtigrr  Children  ff  per  font  Dying  J>-t<ilAtt9  That  the  whole  1(jal  Estate  of 
fuch  To  fort  Vjii'g  Intcftdtr,  fliauld  V>-lctnd  ta  his  F.tdefl  .9w;,  and  thereby 
the  other  Children,  vboft  L.tbuiirs  have  brcn  very  ufeful  Mid  tidvMjttgtaiu  to  their 
~£tircntst  in  'Trancing  and  Itafffvtnr  fuih  'T^;^i  EftMtjfioutd  be  left  'Destitute. 

D  d 


96  A-int  2\jY;-''   Kf&*  Cioorgii  Quarto  et  Quinto. 


D£  /f  therefore  F-r-iiled  by  the  general  jiffemblj  of    tins    Colony,  and   '•>•/    the 
Authority  of  the  fane.     >.,4nd  it  is    kcrtbj    Ens.ttcd.  That  from  and  after 
r:i  r'v  </;!>!t       the  Publication  of  this  A&,  when  any  peribn  faail   Die    Inteft/ite,  his   Eftate 
bi&Htoriuti    both  Real  and     l'erfo"al,   foal!    be    under    theatre  and  management   ot   ("uch 
^Ordinary.    Adminiftrator,  as  fhall  j-,e  loyally  appointed  in  rliis   Colony  ',    who  fhall  Exhi 
bit  an  Inventory  ot"  the  iame  unto  the  Town-  Council  that  printed  luch   Let 
ter  of  Administration,  and  the  Appraifement  ot  luch  Eftate  ihall  be  by  three 
or  more  good  and  fuiiicient  Freeholders  upon    Oath  to  be  appointed  by  faid 
HM  .-)';;•£  hi.    YOWn-Gouncil  •,   which   Appraisement   and  Inventory  being  duly    Exhibited 
and  allowed  by  the  Town-Council  :,    the   laid  Eftate  flvill    after    Debts,   laft 
Sicklied,  and  Funeral  Charges  of  (uch  Intefiate  paid,  be  divided  by  order  of 
fuch  Town-Council   amongft   the   Widow,   Children,  and  their    Reprelenta- 
F'!f^,,      tives,  or  others  nexcot  Kin  of  the  Inteftate,    in  manner  and   loim  following  ; 
Artuw.          ^J-*f  "  to  fey*  one  third  pare  of  the  peribnal  Eft;tte  to    the  Wile  of  the  Intel- 
tare  for  ever  ;  asalfo  one  third  part  ot"   the  real  Eftate    for  her   Dower,  du 
ring  her  Life,  where  (uch  Wife  Ihall  not  be  otherwile   Endowed    by    laid    In- 
ceftate  before  Marriage  i  and  allb  the  reft  of  the  Kelldue   and    Remainder   of 
Jiltbercll      both  the  real  and  perlbnal  Eftnte  amongft  the  Children   of  fuch  lotcftate,  or 
eau.il.  their  legal  Repretentatives  as  tolloweth,  viz..    to  the  E!dei>  Son,  or  in  cafe  of 

his  Death,  to  his  legal  Repretentatives  a  double  Portion  or  fhare,  and  to  each 
of  die  other  Children  :,  or  in  cale  of  any  of  their  Death,  to  fuch  Child's 
legal  Reprelentatives,  one  equal  part  or  ihare  of  iaid  Eflate,  laving  only 
that  where  any  Child  (ha!)  have  had  or  Received  from  the  Imeftate  any 
Portion  or  Settlement  in  the  lite-time  of  the  Inteftate,  fuch  Portion  or 
Settlement  ihall  be  valued  as  it  was  worth  at  the  time  of  fuch  Settle 
ment",  an>:!  fuch  Child  Ihall  only  have  [ii  much  more  of  the  Inteftatcs  E- 
ftace,  as  may  make  the  liud  Port  inn  or  Settlement:  before  h^d  or  made, 
equal  with  the  reft  of  the  Children  ,  and  in  cafe  the  Eldeft  Son  ihall 
Die  in  the  Life-time  ot  the  Intell.ite,  leaving  no  Children,  nor  Grand- 
Children;  that  then  fuch  double  Portion  fhaU  go  ro  the  next  Eldeft  Son 
of  the  Intefl-ate,  or  his  Legal  Reprefenattives  ,  And  where  the  Inteftate 
ihall  Die,  leaving  no  Sons  nor  their  Legal  Reprelentatives,  that  then  fuch 
Eftate  ihall  be  equally  divided  amongft  the  Daughters  ot  fuch  Inteftate, 
or  their  !  i-gal  Representatives,  they  to  Inherit  the  fame  as  Co-partners. 

In  vfJ>a>.  cnfc  PROVIDED  neverthelefs  that  where  any  Eftate  in  Houfes  or  Lands,  cnn- 
noc  {.,e  divided  amongft  all  die  Children  or  their  Legal  Reprelentatives,  wirh- 
°'j:  Sreat  perjudice  to,  or  fpoiling  the  whole,  and  being  fo  Reprefenred  and 
t,'jeJ.jnds,  made  to  appear  unto  the  Town  Council,  the  laid  Town  Council  may  order 
&c.  Icptjivg  the  whole  or  any  part  to  the  Eldeft  Son,  lie  Paying  to  rhe  other  Children 
//jt-  :>ther  fair  Equal  and  Proportionable  parts  or  lhares  according  to  the  Apprizement 
pm'M  thereof  and  in  Cafe  the  Eldeft  Son  Ihull  Reiuie,  then  to  fuch  next  Eldeft 
font.  °  Son  fucceiuvely  as  fti'ill  accept  the  fame,  he  Paying  to  the  other  Children 
their  proportionable  parts,  as  aforelaid. 


P  be  it  futhcr  Enacted  by  the  Authority  nfortfad.  That  when  any  Perf  >n 
<.•/•:  :,iien,  the  fliall  Die  Inteftate,  leaving  no  Children  nor  their  Legal  Reprefenratives,  That 
jfifg  to  live  tjiea  one  Moiety  or  half  part  of  the  Perfonal  Eftate  of  fuch  Inteftare,  th'ill  be 
'$'  ,  Allotted  to  the  Wife  ot  the  Intett-ate  forever,  and  one  Third  part  of  the 
t^l-inf't^  Real  Eftate  for  Term  of  her  Life;  and  the  Refidue  and  R.eru;iiuder  of  .both 
real  t.Jtxe.  the 


Kr^ni    T^jgit     Geor^n     Quarto     et     Quinto  97 


the  Real  fcPerfona!  EftarefhaH  be  equally  divided  amongft  fuch  o'*  the  next  of 
Rtn  of  the  Ititeftate,  within  equal  Degree,  or  their  Legal  Reprefentatives,  **ff>e  Xetrt' 
{hall  put  in  their  Claims  thereunto  before  iuch  Town   Council,  within  the<tertofae 
times  herein  after  limited,  -y/z..  ail  fuch  Perionsas  at  the  time  of  the  Death  o  r 


«.'4*V  A.    V.l*i 

in  other  parts,  within  three  Years  next  after  fuch  Adnviniftraion  Granted,  and  °!*  •>''•"* 
in  default  thereof,  fuch  Perfim  or  Pur  fans  fhal)  be  utterly  Barred  and  Excluded  '^fcin'thM 
ft  v  ever  after, from  Claiming  or  Challenging  arty  Right  or  intereft  in  the  lame, 
or   any  part  thereof. 


he  it  further  En*'d<d,  That  in  Cafe  there  (ha!)  be  no  Wife  of  the 
Inteftate  Surviving  him,  that  then  nil  iuch  Eftate  of  the  Inteftate  both  Reai 
and  Perfonal,  fhall  be  Divided  amongft  the  Children  ct'the  lateftate  in  man 
ner  as  afore  fa  id  ',  and  it  no  Children,  then  nmongft  the  next  of  Kin  oi  fuch 
Inteftate  in  equal  Decree,  and  their  Reprefentatives  in  manner  as  aforefaid. 


^  be  it  further  Enabled  ly  the  Authority  afortfald^  That  every  Perfort 
to  whom  any  fhare  or  part  fhal!  be  allowed,  lhall  give  Bond  witli  two  good 
and  fufficient  Sureties  to  the  Adminiflrator  before  the  Town  Council,  to  Re- 
iuud  and  Pay  back  to  fuch  Adminiitrator,  his  or  her  Rateable  and  Proportio 
nable  part  of  any  Debt  or  Debts,  that  iltali  afterwards  appear  to  be  Du«  and 
Owing,  from  the  Eftate  of  Iuch  Intefl-='.K  to  any  parfon  or  perioios  whatloever, 
as  alfo  the  Charges  accurs»g  thereon,  by  any  Suit  or  Suits  in  Law  or  Equity, 

And  be  it  further  Enatted,  Thvtr  after  tJie  Death  of  the  Wife  or  Widow  of 
fuch  Inteftate,  her  Thirds  or  Dower  of  the  Rea!  Eftate  (hall  be  divided 
amongft  the  Children,  or  next  of  Kin  of  the  Inteftate,  as  by  this  A& 
ihail  at  fuch  time  have  a  right  to  the  fame. 


Atd  <tl«Aj;,  *nd  \>e  it  further  £»a#firf,That  it  fixall  be  lawful  for  any  per-  ^tf-"-li  f*f 
ion  or  perfons  agrieved  at  any  Sentence  oV  Judgment  of  any  Town-Council,  [  ' 

for  any  Matters  contain'd  in  this  Aft,  to  appeal  from  fuch  Sentence  or  judg 
ment,  to  the  Governour  and  General  Council  of  this  Colony,,  for  a  final  Judg* 
ment  thereon-,  fuch  perfotis  giving  in  Bond,  with  fufficient  Sureties,  to  pro- 
fecure  the  fame  wkh  efFeil  ;  and  in  the  mean  time,  all  Process  on  the  Sen 


tence  or  Judgment  of  fuch  Town-Council  to  be  lufpendid.     Any  thing  here 
in  con:ainea  to  the  contrary  notwifhftanding. 


t  of 


j*T?Dbe  it  further    Enatted  i>j   :hf  Juthoriry  aforefaid,    That  when  any    per-  ^!-e  ^ 
fon  "being  Seiz'd  ;n  Fee  in  his  own  fole  and  proper  right  of  any_  Lands,  Tere-  '/''Ln'^m 
ments  or  Hereditaments  Lying  within  the  Limits  or  this  Colony,  and  {hall  tfn'-r/c.  Ef, 
Die  Inteftate,  tearing  no  Wife  or  Children,  nor  other  perfon   or    perfcv.s   of  (hat  toil* 
Kifl  to  him,  that  can  lawfully  claim  fuch  Eftate,  as  Koir   or    Heirs  at    Law  -,r<""- 
that  then  nnd  in  fuch  cafe,    fuch  Eftate  Hull   efchcnt  and  go  to    the  Town 
where  fuch  Land  Lies,  for  the  ufe.and  benefit   of   futh    Town  }    and    in  cafe 
fuch  per  fon  fhall  leave  any  Perfonal  Eflate,  fuch  Eftate  fhal'   go  an'd  accrug  to 
fuch  Town  where  fuch  perfcn  Died,  or  laft   Inhabited    within  this  Colony  / 
And  the  Town-Council  ot  fuch  Town,  fhal)  take  due  care  of    the  fame,  for 
de  benedt  of  fuch  Town*  P4    2.  But 


<j8  nAntio  .'Regnl   ^gis    Georgii    Quarto •  et  Quinto. 


But  in-cafe  fuch  perfon  (hall  Dye.  SeizM  of»any  Land-?./  Bright  iu  Lands 
Exctttfur.li  b'in£  in  common  with  orher  perfon^  and  undivided,. -that  then  fuch -Lands,  or 
hinds  M  me  his  right  m  fuch  Lands  fhalT-go  and  accrue  to  fuch  .other  Pertbus  and  their 
kid  in  Com-  Heirs,  as  were  at  the  time  of  his  Daiith,  Tenants  iu  comroou  with  him  in 
iina;$ia$gt  tjle  fame. 


AN   ACT,  For  taking  JDepofitions   out  of  Court, 


F 


01LAS.MVCH  AS  the  taking  •  Duygfittws  »fiWitn(ffis.-,in  Civil  Ctiteks,  is  often 
tteccjpiry,  by  rettfon  of  the  uncertainty  of  the  Life,  Health    and  (oiitf^uid.   P.i'fi- 


dtnce  of  fuch  \VitncjSj  until  the^  Sifting  of  tht  Court ,    to  Try  juch    C*itfcf  '-.  An<i 

^tMci^hruly  tn\f,n^   ACi't'fdr'*   TO  tkdr  mtt 


£  Diytncrits  sf^Wttnefi  &«]"**£>; fySw«£"<rrzJj/  taksK^   etccdrdrig   :o  their  intent    and. 
,  atutTx'ur.fmitltd'-to  th 


fore  a 
&c. 


BE  •»>  tkcrcfofir  Ena&'eA  by  the  Gttitral  isijfcttbly  of  this  Colons,   Ar.A  by  the  Au~ 
thtrity  ff'tht/amf^  That -it  fhJtll  and  may  be'luwful  for  drher.  '1-1  •.•intiff  or 
fie  take^/'e.^    Derendnnt  in  any.  Civil  Action  Comnienced  for  ox   againft   him    at  any  CourC 
f'in  this  Colony,  to  take  out  a  Surnrrions  from  any  A'ffiftant-  or  Juftice  of  the 
•Peace  of  rhe 'Neighbourhood  for  nich  Witnefs  or  WitnefTes  to  ap'neur  before 
him,  to  cive  in  his  or  their  Evidence  of  what  he  or  they  fciiow  hi    the  Cafe 
'dt'en  depending  ;  provided  that  a   Notification  be    firft  ta'Ken  cur.   from   faid 
Iftleterfim   Juft'^j'to  the 'ad\ eric  Party,  if  dwelling  \vithin  ten  Miles  of  the  Place,  and 
wttfttb       unto  hmxRead,  to  be'prfcfeneif  .to' be  found  at  the  place  of  his  or  rheir  uiual 
afoafe  f.vty    HaliitaHon  -,  ofi^Viot'to  be  found,  a  C>ipy  chefeof  being  left  there  for  him 
to  be  there.     or  them,  a  reaibnable  time  be-fore   die  Exanxination  of  fuch  Witr.eii  or  Wit- 
Jidfes,,  every  fuch  Witnefs  to  be  carefully    -ixammed  and   Charsted  by   fuch 
juftice  to  "Declare  tne  whole  Truth,  and  nothing  but  the  Truth;  between  laid 
Parties,  which  Dep'ontion  Jo  taken,  arid  wrote  by  the  Juftice,  or  other  perfon 
by  his  appointment  •,  and  being  attefted  by   fuch  JufKce,  is  to   be  delivered 
to  the  Party,  at  whole  delke  the  fame  was  taken,  a. Copy  thereof  to-be  deli 
vered  to  the  adverfe  Party,  it  by  .him  or  them  then  dcfire'd,   and  paying  for 
the  fame;  which  Charges  iiialL  be  allowed     to.    die    Party  that  fh;iil  obtain 
Judgment'  ip  the  Bill  of  Coftg  ,  neithej:  of.  the  Parties,  nor  their  Attorney  ;; 
to  draw  any  Juch  Evidence. 


A  N  ACT  for  Dilcuoinging,  Vexatious  and  Unjufl  Suits  in  Law 

WI-JET^EAS,  it  hath  been  fouvd  that  Sui$s  and  tAttiew    at  Lan,  have  been 
much    tncrtafcd  ff   Lfte   Tew,    by   tht  Vtx.itiout.    And    Letigiatii  fDtfct>fi- 


•   fAft  j\  i*  jjLtJ  <•   *+     'JUtnt     vi  ff+    tvmrfi*     *fsrn     *^*'*-j^   •<     *^  v>^-»  ** 

\  much  tncrtafcd  ff  Lfte  Tew,  by  tbt  Fixations,  and  Leugictu  <Bifp>fi' 
tolas  •  of  either  Plant: jfs  or  Dcfcfidwtt,  in  cit-lore  Sv'wgfor -what,  it  riot  tlitir  dutt  or 
Vnju'iily  witbolditng  t\ic  fame  from  others,  atid  (ire  much  Encouraged. thereto  by  rettftnt 
the  Vfiutl  Gefb  &  the  'Partiet  Obtaning  Judgment,  is.  »#*?»/»«•*#«  to  what  may 
.  _ r. — ,/./.  ^  (illffft'ffii 

For 


Rrgni     R.-gis     Georgii     Quarto     at     QuintO. 


B 


For  the  Dilcouraging  the  fame  for  the  future. 

TVo  Shil- 

E   it    therefore    Erx&'-d    by  tat-.    Central  stjfemtiy  of  Mi  O'j.'ry,    and  ky  the  '^^pi.'ice 
'•   ••---•--  Of  the    fame,  ami  ic  is  /jj>'ci>y   £>;.«£.'</,  That  wften  and  !>  often,!/'' 


Six-pwce,  for  every  Ten  Miles  difbnce  from  tiio  Place  or  iuch  Perfor.s  ;  and  imgs  per 
each  of  the  '.Vitneifes  Habitations  :o  rhe  Couct  where  iuch  Ousie  flnll  be  ^icrtl  f<* 
Tryed,  and  TV  Shilling:  per  Day  for  iuch  Perioti  or  Perions,  and  each  ot  his,"1" 
her  or  ii:eir  Witnefies,  for  their  Attendance'  on  laid  Court. 

PROVIDED  aKvays,  that  in  Cafe  the  Evident  of  any  inch  Witneffes 
fo  attending,  (hull 'appear  to  fuch  Cour^  t^  be  fnvLus  and  not  material  to 
prove  the  K'.fue  in  the  Caafe,  itfliaH  be  in  the  P-iv/er  snd  au  the  Dilcietbn 
of  the  Court  to  allow  him  nothing.,  for  iuch  their  'Travel  and  Attendance  In 
fuch  Bill  ot  Coft?,  and  the  Perlbas  who  Summoned  them, (had  Pay  their  Coiis 
for  Coming,  Attendance,  tire. 


AN  ACT,  Dke&hig  Proceeding?  iiv  Actions  attd  Suits,  wherein 
either  the  Recorder  or  Sheriff  are  Parties. 


K  it   En.'-ftcJ  ty  thi  Genera!  z/Kf.-mb'j  if  tkit  His   Maicftics  Colony,  and  by  Tf;f 

the  *s4:ithiity  dfthtftmt,  Tuac  wh'.'Ti  and  (r>  ofeen  ht'nceror.vard,  a$  the  MewKy  n 

Recorder  of  this  Colony  tor  the  drne  being,  ftiall  be  a  Party  in  any  S'$n  all 


Action  or  Suit,  either  as  Plantiif  or  Defendant ;    rha    Writ   or   Writs  both  f?-/' f/J 
Original   ai:d  Judicial,   fnal)  be  bigned  r-iul   SeaiedX  as  the   Law  ia   fuch  Cafes  '-^" 
Requires  .)  by  the  General  Attorney  of  this  Colony,  and  that,  in  a!!  Actions  or  M  ifntt 
Suits  vvhere:;;  the  Sheriff  of  this  Calory  for  the  cinv  beino;  fhal)  be  ;i  Parcj/j'-li'e  »'-"«  'he 
VVrics  both   Oriu,i:::-ii  and  Ju-iiciai,  ihal!  be  directed  to   the    Town  Sergeant  of  f'"7^  * 
the   Town,  for  the  time   being,  where  the  Defendant  in  iuch  Action  or 
Hiall  be  an  Inhabitant  to  Execute  the  iarae. 


AN    ACT,    for    rhc  betrer    Regulating  of  the   Collectors   and 
Naval   Officers    Fees    within  this    Colony. 


FOI^jJSzJMVCh'  as  tin  General  ^4(\inMy  ?f     this    Colony  held  at  Warwick, 
m  the  Tuttnty-niih  L\:y  of  Oft'-iber,  t?'^.  /'.t/?  <-.«  Act  for  the  7{jva!aring  .<tnd 
StMtinf  tht  Gtltfton  *nd   Ifyvitl  Officers   l-ces   within  tbrt  Colony  ;  lOhicb    .Act 
found  not   to  be  fo   Extetifivs  *ts  w-f    intended^  T'hc/tfc-ie  the  fame  n  hereby 
Hull  and  VoiA>  and   of  none  bff't::l. 


T^D  be   it  Enatttii  by  tbi<  General  jfffembfy,  md  by   the  c//af  hority  taere  of  h 

is  Enatted-tTh-At  thef?  i-?ees  hereafter  meniioned,(ba11  be  the  ftated  Table 

of  Btcr.  for  tlw  Collector  and  JSaval  Officer  within-  tliis  Colony,  and  rhat  t!ie 

B  e  Cgl 


too  4»,i6  fff^ni  Kegis  Georun  Quarto  et  Ouinto- 


"eGtSeffvr     CoUeclor  and  Naval  O-Ttcer,  they,or  either  of  them,or  any  Deputy  under  either 

iidjf&a!       of  them,  Ihali  not  take  any  other  or  greater  Fees  then  is  therein   mentioned 

(war*00  c^e    Penalty  of  Fo'etting  Twenty  &hi!iit>os  to  the  Colony  for  every  Offence* 

Fees  than  n     to  be  recovered  before  vtuy  on  Affiftant  or  juflice  of  the  Peace,  upon  Complaint 

'iere;nfi<ite.[.    made  of  fuch,  where  fuch  Offence  (hall  ba  Committed,  together  with  the  Coils 


Court  oi  Tryals 


A  Table  of  Fees  for  the  Collcftors  Office,  for  Vcilels  Trading  to 
Europe^  or  co  the   Weft-  Indies. 

/       s  d 

ENtering  Inwards.  co     02  oo 

Permit   to   Unload-  oo     oi  c>o 

Entring   Outward-  GO    ox  oo 

permit  to  Load.  oo     oi  co 

Clearing  Outward.  oo     02  o<$ 

Bill  of  Store,  co     oi  oo 

Certificate    for  Europt.tn  Goods.  oo     oi  06 

Signing;  the  Regifter.  oo     03  oo 

A     Table      of.    Fees  for     Coafters, 

ENtering  Inwards.  oo    oo  o<J 

Permit  to  Unload-  oo     oo  04. 

Entering   Outward.  co     oo  04. 

Permit  to   Load.  oo     oo  04 

Clearing,    Outwards  oo     GO  otf 

Certificate  for    Europ&m  Goods.  oo     oi  oo 

Bill  of  Store.  oo     oo  o5 

Permit  to  unload  a  fmall  quantiy,  the   Veflel  not  Entered.  oo     cxs  08 

Endorfing  the  Regifier  if  Requeued.  oo    oi  o<S 

A     Table     of    Fees     for  the     Naval     Officer. 

TO   the  Governour  for  Signing  the  Regiiter.                      oo     06  oo 

To  the    Naval    Officer   for  Writing    the    Rigeiter.  oo     03  oo 

,1 0*,^  Entering  Sloops,    Coafters.  oo     oo  06 

Clearing  Ditto.  oo    oo  06 

Entering  Ships  or    Sloops  Foreign.  oo     01  oo 

If  they  give    Bond.  oo     03  oo 

Clearing    Ships  or    Sloops  Foreign.  oo     03  on 

Cocquet    for    European    Goods,    Each.  oo    oi  oo 

Bill  of  Store.  co    oi  oo 

Bond.  oo    or  oo 

All  CertiQcats  from  Great  Briteain    to  fiiew  Bond   given.      oo    03  oo 

An 


Ar.uo     ff^i     7?v*r;V     Ceon-ii     Q-j?.n:!>     et     Quinto, 


101 


AN  ACT  For  Calling  in  the  Throe  Pound  Bills  of  Credit  Emitted 
by  this  Colony  in  the  years  One  Thoufand,  Seven  Iiun.clr.ai  and 
rcu,  ana  o«e  Thcafand,  Seven  Hundred  and  Eleven. 


as  the  Tl°ree  rPsund  fills  of-  Credit  on  tint  Cdoiy,  Emit* 
ltd  in  the  Tear:  nfofffaid,  have  been  Count  trfeitct-t,  whereby,  grc.it  Damagci 
have  happened  ta  fnrrxl  peifenf,  winch  may  difcssragt  the  Currency  oj  (MA  "Sills, 
if  not  pre-v(nt(c4. 

E  if    thersfnre   EnaEicd    by   t'ai*    Trefent    j4ffiml'!y,  and  ly    ihc    Authority 
of  the  f.~.>nt.   ft  is  frix&cd,  That  the  Poileflbrs  of   Three    Pound    Bills    ,      n 
of  Credit  of  this  Colony.  Emitted  in  the    years   afo'efaid,  Do    bring  #',v/7 //"^ 
into  the  General  Treafury  of  fhta  His   IVIajefties   Colony,    al!    the    aforefaid/.r«rf;-w/0  tj,c 
Bills,  before  or  uprm  the  Firft  Day  of  May^  in   nhe  year  of  our   Lord,  One  Tnnfwi,  ty 
Tlioafaiid,  Seven  Hundred  and  Nineteen,  where   all   tlie   fiiid  Bilts   fliall   \^t1j'l"ftDf 
Changed  w^th  n^er  P-iite  of  Puhlick  Credit  ;    and  all  of  the  atoreiaM   Three     ^^  I7'9> 
Pound  Bills  of  v^!-'d:t  that  fh«i!  net.   be  brought  into  the  Genera!    Tieafury  by 
the  atorellkl Firft  Day  of  «, 'Mty,  One  Thoufand,  Seven  Hundred  and    Nine 
teen,  Be,  and  hereby  are  Prohibited  to  pals   from  man  tr,   m?.,^   or  ]m«  jny. 
further  Currency-     Any  AA  or  <\cls,   Claufe  or  Clauies  of  Afbs  to   the  con 
trary  hereot  notwilbftanding. 


AM   ACT,  For  the  Relief  of  poor  Pri  Toners. 

'~JCH   a*  many  infolvent  cDibtars  h.tve  been  thrown  into  (jotil  vfcti  Ex- 
ly  their  Creditors^  and  have  Ixid  long  lnngitijhii}gt    to   the   deflrojing  of 
and  Families. 


BE  if  therefore  E>M$ed  by  this  general  Jffemblj-,  end  by  f'he  Authority  vf  the 
fame,  Tliat  %vhok>ever  fhall  keep  or  continue  an  infofvent   Debtor  in  tnfolrcnt 
Prifon  any  longer  time  than  he  lhall  be  able    to   fubfift   hinifsjf,   ihall  ta'-ft°  le 
find  tor  Ibch  Prilbner,  Work  fufficient  to  luhfift  himfelr,   during  his  Confine-  p^eS' 
ncent,  or  fliall  pav'  unto  fuch  Piitbnei,  Six-pence  per  Day  during  the  lame-,  and  Diem  by 
that  if"  iuch  Creditor  (hall  refufe  to  pay  the  fame,  that  then   upon   Complaint  titditor. 
thereof  made  ro  any  Afiiftant,  or  juftice  of  the  Peace,   and  Convicliou  there 
of,  fuch  Allillant  or  Juftice  ihall  grant  forth  a1  Warrant  of  Diftrefs,  to  diflram 
.(b  mucli  of  fuch  Offenders  Rftate  as  ihall  J'-itisfte  and  pay  the  fame. 


AN  ACT,  For  the  more   (needy  Tryai  of  fuch  Negro   and  Indian 
Slaves  as  (hall  be  found  Purloining  and  Stealing, 


B 


"E  it  Emitted  ly  the  Cjener.il  &4ffemblj  of  tba  Colony t    und  by  the 
thonty  of  the  fame  it  is  En»tted,  That  all    ISesiro  and    Indian    Slaves 
that  ftai)  be  found  Purioiniag,  Stealing  or  Thieving,  ihnll  be  Try- 

«. 


Georgit    Q.uarto  er  Quinio. 


eci  Adjudged  for  the  fanie-,  in  the  Town  wbes«  luch  Offence  {hall-be 
Cu;nnii£ted  ;  And  the  Affiflanrs  Juftk-w  cf  are  Peace,  and  Wardens  of  iuch 
Tovvt  ,-T)T  any  twci  of  thtfi^-  arfi  ^crs^X  ^My  Inrpowsfed  to  Hear.  Try  au^ 
Atfjyrtve  the  <"a»i*  ?  and.  upon  Conviclion  h-srsot,  PdBJittvc  c^nreuce  tc  givs, 
a»-.ftilly  aod  effeftuany  by  Whipping,  Baniiliing,  ore.  as  die  Genera!  Courts  of 
Tjfya^j  anii  General  Goa?  Delivery,  within  this  His  M:;jcfties  Colony  'have 

oJii  Authorizedj  Ufed  or  Acou^oroed  to  do. 
aitornJ  totfie     Having  ai  ways  the  liberty  of  an  Appea!  to  the   General  Court  of  Tryals, 
ot«7j/r^       -'^  (^ienera'  Goal  Leli'/ery-jit  the  Owner  of  Juch  Siave  or  vSlaves  faali  deiirethe 
^'&  oZ   fa?ejani^  Sive  ^ond  co  Pro*"eciu:e  luc^  Appeal  as  5u  other  Ctife?  Any  Ad  or  Acts, 
!><«;;<?;>•.        CJa'^  or  ^-^au'*!S  c^  Atts  to  the  contrary  hereof  in  any  wiie  notwithftanding. 


ACT,  Regulating  the  Recorders  and  Sheriffs  Fees, 
Cafes  that  come  befoce  the  General  Amenably. 


B«r  Enacted  ^y  the  General  estflembl^  and  by.thu  Authority  rf  the  fame,  ft  if 
frfllsA.,      Th^t    the  General    Recorder  and    Sheriff  of.  this  Colony, 
fha!>  Vave  arid  f*ke  t^6  ^ike  Fees  in  all  Cafes  as  come  before  the  Gene 
ral  AiG"11^^'  as  t^°y  :'iva  a^'Jwcr-i  to  liave  Mid  take  in  Cauies  brought  fo  the 
iii  Court  of  Tryals. 


The  Table 


Page. 

ABufe  or  Bifobedience  to  Officers.  4 
Actions    in   Law   beTween  the 

Recorder  and  Sheriff.  99 

Administrations.                      15,14,67,  81 

Amercement  or.  Jurors  non  appearance.  30 

Appeals.  3? 

Artificers.  10 

Affiftantn    Fees.  38 

Afiize    of  Bread.  59 

Attachments  Regulated.  95 

Attorney  Generis  Fee's;  21 

Attorney  Generals   dirty.  30 


s 

BArgains.  8 

Banns  of  Matrimony.  12 
Bribery. 

Birthes  and   Burials.  47 

Bills  of  Credit  Emitted.    60,62,  6'?>75  >  79 

Coimterfeitr.g  of  the  fame.  6r 

Three    Pounds  called  in.  101 

Bond  to  the  Sheriff.  26 

Breach  of  Peace.  6 

Burglary.  5 


CHance  Medly 
Clerks  of  Courts  of  Tryal?. 
Clerks  Fees. 
Oandeftine  Marriages. 
Clandeftine     Transportations^ 
Colonels     Commiffion. 
Courts  of  Tryals. 
Conftables. 
Conftables  Fees, 

Commilfion,  of  a  Jufh'ce  of  Peace. 
Colleftors  Fees. 
Confpirators  and  Champetors. 
Colony   Seal. 
Cofts  of  Court  fecured.- 
Curfinp. 


4 
re 


46 
tii 
i<; 
2,3 
?8 
36 
99 
8 


T^Eputies,  now  Qualified. 
-L/        When  Eleftcd. 

Fine    for  non-attendance. 

How  recovered  &  difpofed; 

Allowance  per  Diem. 

Exempted  from  Arreft. 
Deodand,  and  how   difpofed. 
Debts  from  Towns,  how  recovered. 
Deer, 

Di (obedience  to  Affiftants,  &c. 
Difobedience  to    Parents  and  MafterS. 
Dogs. 

Drunkennefs. 
Duty  on  Negroes  Imported. 


E 
p  j4ft  Greenwich  a  Townfhip." 

The  Townfhip  Extended* 
Engagement  of  General  Officers. 

of    Deputies. 

Military   OSicers. 

Clerk   of  Train-band^ 

Town  Officers. 

Afleflbrs. 

Jurors. 

Evidences  taken  out  of  Court. 
Executors. 
Executions; 


. ». 

FEes  aHowed  m  Conr i. 
Fences 
Feri-ys. 

Firil  Day  of  the  Week- 
Fire,  preventing    thereof. 
Fire  Wood. 
Firing    (he  woods. 
Form  of  the  Bills  of  Credit.' 
Forn 'cation. 


ib 
it, 


$ 

29 

54 

42 

4 

42 

10 

64 


r 
z 


25 

50 

r6 
98 

15 
21. 


54, 


13  {  Forgery. 

62  1  Fraudulence. 

ii  !  Forcible.  Entry  and  Detainer. 


2* 
24 
39 
32 


5? 

<5o 


THE     TABLE. 


GEneral  AflTemblv  Related., 
Governour    or  Deputy  Governour 

to  call  Afletublisi. 
Goal  in  Providence. 
Gunner   at  Fort  Ann, 


H 

High  and    Petit    Treafoh. 
High-ways. 


40 


N'Aval    Office. 
Fees. 


34 
65.  99 


Negroes  and  Indians  abroad  in  the  night.  52 


70 


4 

7? 


I 

JAtnes   Tr°v>n    Ertfted. 
impounding    Cattle,    &r 
impoi  ration     of    Slaves,    &V. 
Indians  not  to  be  Sued  for  Debt. 
Jntcfhte   EH  ate?. 
J.l*  ices  of  the  Peace: 
Jury-men. 

Exempted    from    Arreft. 
Juices  Fees. 
Intrufion   on  Narragani'c.t  Lands. 


K 

Erefted. 


31 
4' 
78 
»5 

ij»  95 
36 

16,  74 
18 
38 
4' 


LAws  of  England  in   force, 
Lands  not  Subjected  to 
any    other   Government- 
Ucenfing     Rctaikrs. 
Lying,    crc. 


Cafe.       45 


and  Stealing,  &c. 
Nciv-Sboreham  a   Townfhip. 
A'itiigrets    Shjchains  lands. 
Notary     Publick.. 


i  or 

27 
68,83 

55 


O 

Officers  Fee?;  at  the  Court  of  Tryals.  81,84 
Overfcers   of    the  i'oor.  10 


TjEdlars    Prohibited. 

-  Penalty  for    preten  ce  to  Office. 
Probate  of  Wills  Fees. 
Poor    Prifoners. 
Private  .Men  of   War, 


69 
4 
19 

27>  ior 

39 


M 

MAintenance      of    Minilters."  80 

Maiming     perfons     nKiiiciou{ly.  5 

Maimed    in    wai      Relieved.  94  _ 

Miliiia  85  ^ 

Mmdcr,   Man-ilaughter  ^.  Mifadventure.  4  i 


QUietng  of  Poffeflion. 


K 

T>  Ates. 

not   mifapplyed. 
Recording  Afts  of  Affeaibly," 
Recorders  Vc^s.  ,  ")• 
Regiftring  Detds,  C^r. 
Re.hearings. 

jleguiatkm  oi  Ra:tt;§  and  Taxes." 
Riding,  Exceffively. 
Robbery. 
Riots. 
Runaways; 


"40 
45 


20, 


49- 


71 
84 
50 
2$ 
51 
50 


s 


THE     TABLE, 


S  Afters. 
Servant?. 

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